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NOBLE HOUSE
by Clavell, James
- Used
- Good
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Good/Fair
- ISBN 10
- 0440064562
- ISBN 13
- 9780440064565
- Seller
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Concord, California, United States
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About This Item
Delacorte Press, NY, 1981, 2nd Printing Large octavo, hardcover, black boards with gilt lettering on spine and on cover.good in edgeworn white dj. . 1206 pp. Red endpapers. A novel of contemporary Hong Kong.. Good/Fair.
Synopsis
Noble House is a novel by James Clavell, published in 1981 and set in Hong Kong in 1963. It is part of Clavell's Asian Saga. It is a massive book, well over 1000 pages, with dozens of characters and numerous intermingling plot lines. In 1988, it was adapted as a television miniseries for NBC starring Pierce Brosnan. The miniseries updates the storyline of the novel to the 1980s. The Noble House also is a nickname of Struan's, the trading company featured prominently in most of Clavell's novels.
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Details
- Bookseller
- bookwitch (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 15668b
- Title
- NOBLE HOUSE
- Author
- Clavell, James
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Jacket Condition
- Fair
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 0440064562
- ISBN 13
- 9780440064565
- Publisher
- Delacorte Press, NY, 1981, 2nd Printing
- Place of Publication
- New York
- This edition first published
- 1981
Terms of Sale
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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....
- Gilt
- The decorative application of gold or gold coloring to a portion of a book on the spine, edges of the text block, or an inlay in...
- Octavo
- Another of the terms referring to page or book size, octavo refers to a standard printer's sheet folded four times, producing...