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The Grotto
by STONE, Grace Zaring
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- See description
- Seller
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London, London, United Kingdom
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About This Item
New York: Harper Bros., 1951. 8vo, pp. 249. Original pale blue textured boards and black spine, lettered in gilt at spine. A little age-toned, some offestting to preliminaries, but a near fine copy in a very good, edgeworn dustwrapper, with three chips to top edge of rear panel. First edition. 'Grace Zaring Stone is the first novelist who has dared to write frankly about a tragic problem -- the struggle of a mother to save her son from becoming a homosexual. Her approach to the subject is feminine, delicate, and profoundly moral.' From the wrapper blurb, which starts off wrong and just keeps going. An acceptable copy of an understandably obscure book.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Neil Pearson Rare Books
(GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 1300
- Title
- The Grotto
- Author
- STONE, Grace Zaring
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- New York: Harper Bros., 1951
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- Early Gay Literature
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- Dustwrapper
- Also known as book jacket, dust cover, or dust wrapper, a dust jacket is a protective and decorative cover for a book that is...
- Gilt
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- Acceptable
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- First Edition
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- Fine
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- Blurb
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- 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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