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The Mask of Memory
by Victor Canning (1911-1986)
- Used
- Very Good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/Very Good
- ISBN 10
- 0688028896
- ISBN 13
- 9780688028893
- Seller
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Fort Worth, Texas, United States
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About This Item
260 pages. Octavo (8 1/2" x 5 3/4") bound in original publisher's quarter black cloth with gilt letting to spine over grey boards in original pictorial jacket. First edition. Isolation and boredom can do strange things to people. After years and years of too much time on her hands, lonely housewife Margaret Tucker's mundane routine becomes smattered with odd behavior. Her husband, Bernard, is cold and distant. Spending most of his time in London with only infrequent visits back to the marital home, Margaret knows nothing about her husband's other life and has been all but discarded by the man she once loved. When Margaret starts losing periods of time and cannot recall her actions she knows things have got to change. But just as she is beginning to rediscover herself, her husband's mysterious life once again collides with hers . . . 'Compulsive Canning' "Yorkshire Post" Condition: Jacket spine heal and corners lightly rubbed, spine head small chip, price clipped else a very good copy in like jacket.
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- Bookseller
- The Book Collector ABAA, ILAB, TBA
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- BOOKS000990
- Title
- The Mask of Memory
- Author
- Victor Canning (1911-1986)
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First
- ISBN 10
- 0688028896
- ISBN 13
- 9780688028893
- Publisher
- William Morrow & Co
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1975
- Keywords
- ESPIONAGE
- Bookseller catalogs
- Literature;
- Size
- Octavo
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