Chicago: Academy Publishers, [1984]., 1984. First edition. Reprint edition. Fine in pictorial wrappers. Originally published in the U. S. in 1959 by J. B. Lippincott, which was preceded by the Gollancz publication in 1958. A young woman struggles with maintaining a household, with a husband who is totally impervious to anything but his own comforts, two young girls who demand much attention, and above all a young baby who will not stop crying! Louise Henderson is so over-wrought with tiredness that it's becoming hard to tell what's real and what's imaginary. Louise and her husband have taken in a lodger, Miss Brandon, a classics teacher at the local grammar school. But to Louise, something is strange about the lodgerAs behavior. Or is it? Perhaps Louise is just too overwrought with tiredness? No one else seems to notice. As LouiseAs waking and sleeping lives increasingly merge, she discovers that somehow the baby is the key, and has to find out whatAs happening before something dreadful happens - if she can just keep awake! Award winner for Best Mystery novel of 1959. Edgar Award winner for Best Mystery novel of 1959.

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Bookseller: BUCKINGHAM BOOKS (US)
Bookseller's Inventory #: 28646
Title: THE HOURS BEFORE DAWN.
Author: FREMLIN, CELIA
Book Condition: Used
Quantity Available: 1
Edition: First edition
Publisher: Academy Publishers, [1984].
Place of Publication: Chicago
Date Published: 1984

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Buckingham Books specializes in new, used and rare books dealing with Mystery and Western Americana. Books in the mystery field include not only Mystery, but also Detective, Espionage, and Adventure Fiction. Our Western Americana Section offers books about the development of the American West. All books in our inventory are First Editions unless clearly stated otherwise.

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