Heartstones
by RENDELL, Ruth
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- Hardcover
- first
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About This Item
New York: Harper & Row, 1987. 8vo, pp. 80. Original grey three-quarter boards, lettered in gilt to cream cloth spine. Illustrated dustwrapper. A fine copy in a near fine dustwrapper with just the lightest of wear to top edge. First US edition, INSCRIBED BY RENDELL TO HER NEIGHBOURS: 'To Pat and Douglas -- love from Ruth'. Douglas Brown [1917-2003] was the BBC's first religious affairs correspondent, and held that position until his retirement in 1977. He and his wife Pat were Ruth Rendell's neighbours in the village of Polstead, Suffolk. Much of her work is set in the county, and when made a life peer she chose the title Baroness Rendell of Babebergh, of Aldeburgh, in the County of Suffolk.
Synopsis
Heartstones is a novella by British author Ruth Rendell, published in 1987. It was also published by Longman in a special educational edition in 1990.
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- Bookseller
- Neil Pearson Rare Books (GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 3702
- Title
- Heartstones
- Author
- RENDELL, Ruth
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- New York: Harper & Row, 1987
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- Modern First Editions
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