The Lonely Passion of Judith Hearne
by Moore, Brian
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- good to very good
- Seller
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Calgary, Alberta, Canada
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About This Item
Boston: Little, Brown & Company/ an Atlantic Monthly Press Book, 1955. Hardcover. good to very good. 1st US Edition. 223pp. Octavo. Blue coated cloth, slightly bumped and worn at ends of spine. Yellowish paper covering 3/4 of boards with stamped decoration, slightly dirty at edges. Clean endpapers. Clean, tight text block. In yellow-green dust jacket, slighty rubbed and lightly worn at edges with some very light chipping. Some stains on back of dust jacket. Not price clipped. good to very good Authors first serious novel (after a 1951 pamphlet). First US edition preceded by English edition which was simply titled 'Judith Hearne'. Rare, especially with dust jacket. 1955
Synopsis
Brian Moore was born in Belfast, Northern Ireland, in 1921. He served with the Ministry of War in North Africa, Italy, and France during the Second World War. He emigrated to Canada in 1948 and worked as a newspaper reporter for the Montreal Gazette from 1948 until 1952. While living in Canada, Moore wrote his first three novels, The Lonely Passion of Judith Hearne , The Feast of Lupercal , and The Luck of Ginger Coffey , the first two set in Belfast, the third in Montreal. In 1959 he moved to the United States, but Canada continued to play a role in his later novels, including I Am Mary Dunne , The Great Victorian Collection , and Black Robe . His many honours included two Governor General’s Awards for Fiction. Brian Moore died in Malibu, California, in 1999. From the Paperback edition.
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- Bookseller
- Aquila Books
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 130410
- Title
- The Lonely Passion of Judith Hearne
- Author
- Moore, Brian
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - good to very good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- Little, Brown & Company/ an Atlantic Monthly Press Book
- Place of Publication
- Boston
- Date Published
- 1955
- Keywords
- Can Lit
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- Spine
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- Chipping
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- Cloth
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- Tight
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- Edges
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- Octavo
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