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Dawn Beloved
by Jean Devanny
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Fair+/Poor
- Seller
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Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, United States
Item Price
A$100.71A$75.53
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
Very Rare First edition 1928 hardcover by a New Zealand authoress, Jean Devanny. She was a pioneer writer and the author of "The Butcher Shop". The spine of the jacket states this book is "a powerful study of a woman's personality in a remote New Zealand bush town". The text has no writing and is in good condition with only lightly faded pages. The jacket is worn with a few tears and crinkles plus rubbing, but still colorful. It is adhering to the cloth covered boards and there is foxing to boards. Hinges are intact. Good binding.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Marianne Matthews
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 273
- Title
- Dawn Beloved
- Author
- Jean Devanny
- Format/Binding
- Good
- Book Condition
- Used - Fair+
- Jacket Condition
- Poor
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- The Macaulay Company
- Place of Publication
- New York, United States
- Date Published
- 1928
- Pages
- 371
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- Jean Devanny; Dawn Beloved; New Zealand literature
- Bookseller catalogs
- Romance Fiction; Collectibles and Antiques; New Zealand Literature; Fiction and Literature; Rare book;
Terms of Sale
Marianne Matthews
30 day return guarantee, with full refund including original shipping costs for up to 30 days after delivery if an item arrives misdescribed or damaged.
About the Seller
Marianne Matthews
Biblio member since 2021
Harrisburg, Pennsylvania
About Marianne Matthews
I am a retired RN and missionary who loves reading, collecting, and selling books as a hobby! I have a large collection of books obtained from several generations of my family and from Great Britain and Africa. Many are religious and devotional books from the late 1800's to the present day, but also selling children's books and more.
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- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- New
- A new book is a book previously not circulated to a buyer. Although a new book is typically free of any faults or defects, "new"...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Rubbing
- Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.
- First Edition
- In book collecting, the first edition is the earliest published form of a book. A book may have more than one first edition in...
- Spine
- The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....
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