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A Favourite of the Gods
by Bedford, Sybille
- Used
- Paperback
- first
- Condition
- F/F/ND
- ISBN 10
- 1907970029
- ISBN 13
- 9781907970023
- Seller
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Salisbury, Wiltshire, United Kingdom
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About This Item
SOFTBACK SHIPPED FROM THE UK.* Edition: 1st. Thus,* Impression: 1st. * Date of Publication: 2011 (1963)* Publisher: Daunt Books.* Binding and cover condition: Soft card covers with French flaps & patterned inside covers. Black and white photo illustrated. No bumps or rubs. Minimal shelf wear to top edges. No creases to spine or hinge. FINE* Contents condition: PRIVATE COPY NOT EX-LIBRARY. Clean, crisp, tight & bright. No annotations, inscriptions or marks to text, no visible faults. No tanning. FINE* Illustrations: None.* Pages: 287 pp. text.* Product Description:- This fascinating novel tells the story of 3 generations of women, in Europe and America, at the beginning of the century. But the story begins with the central character?s parents: a beautiful New England heiress, a Roman Prince and the confused catastrophe of their marriage. One autumn in the late 1920s, a beautiful woman called Constanza boards a train to Brussels and a new marriage. With her is her young daughter, who is going to England. An odd incident interrupts their journey, Constanza and her young daughter step off the train in the French Riviera without the slightest notion of where they have arrived and Constanza makes a decision that changes the course of both their lives.* This is a FINE copy with minimal shelf wear.*
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- Bookseller
- Cocksparrow Books
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 1173
- Title
- A Favourite of the Gods
- Author
- Bedford, Sybille
- Format/Binding
- Paperback
- Book Condition
- Used - F/F/ND
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- ISBN 10
- 1907970029
- ISBN 13
- 9781907970023
- Publisher
- Daunt Books
- Place of Publication
- London. UK. 304
- This edition first published
- 2011
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