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Rape Of The Fair Country (advance reading copy)
by Alexander Cordell
- Used
- good
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Good
- Seller
-
Winston, Georgia, United States
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
Garden City, NY: Doubleday & Company Inc., 1959. Uncorrected Proof / Advance Reading Copy . Hardcover. Good. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. See photos for condition details. Hardcover, special Advance Bookseller's Edition, issued before the first edition. Exterior boards are illustrated with what the dust jacket with looks like book publication. This book is not have a dust jacket as that is how the advance reading copy was issued. Exterior shows some scuffing and toning and the lower right corner of the front board has a more severe spot which also has some damage to the corner. This is why it is embossed with the Doubleday seal and marked damaged with the stamp also in the lower right corner. There is also a shallow dent on the long outside edge (turn-in). Internal binding is good and text pages are tight. There are no signatures or bookplates, no remainder marks, no handwriting or library markings present. The pastedowns and opposite end pages all show information about the book along with other reviews. Please note: this book was issued prior to the release of the first edition in the illustrations on the front and spine are actually part of the exterior boards.
Synopsis
Rape of the Fair Country is a novel by Alexander Cordell, first published in 1959. It is the first in Cordell's "Mortymer Trilogy", followed by The Hosts Of Rebecca (1960) and Song of the Earth (1969). The book has been translated into seventeen languages. Cordell's style and subject matter are reminiscent of Richard Llewellyn's How Green Was My Valley.
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Details
- Seller
- Yesterday's Book Shop (Member IOBA)
(US)
- Seller's Inventory #
- 2230815
- Title
- Rape Of The Fair Country (advance reading copy)
- Author
- Alexander Cordell
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- Uncorrected Proof / Advance Reading Copy
- Publisher
- Doubleday & Company Inc.
- Place of Publication
- Garden City, NY
- Date Published
- 1959
- Pages
- 335
- Size
- 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾
- Bookseller catalogs
- First Editions; Fiction; Advance Reading Copies / Uncorrected Proofs / Review Copies;
Terms of Sale
Yesterday's Book Shop (Member IOBA)
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About the Seller
Yesterday's Book Shop (Member IOBA)
Biblio member since 2021
Winston, Georgia
About Yesterday's Book Shop (Member IOBA)
Yesterday's Book Shop is an independent, family-owned establishment. The store first opened in 1966 under the name Collector's Corner and was located in Western Maryland. The Collector's Corner dealt mainly in books but also sold stamps and assorted ephemera. In 1975 the name was changed to Yesterday's Book Shop when the store only offered books and printed matter. In the early 2000s the brick and mortar store was closed and now we only sell online.
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All of the book pictures were taken at the time the book was listed and we never use generic or stock photos in any listing. If you would like additional photos or information on any listing please let us know and we will be more than happy to comply.
Glossary
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- Reading Copy
- Indicates a book that is perfectly serviceable for reading. It may have a defect or damage. As such, reading copy is not a...
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- Uncorrected Proof
- An uncorrected proof is a printed copy of a book that needs to be reviewed for errors and corrections. They are released prior...
- First Edition
- In book collecting, the first edition is the earliest published form of a book. A book may have more than one first edition in...
- 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....
- Remainder
- Book(s) which are sold at a very deep discount to alleviate publisher overstock. Often, though not always, they have a remainder...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
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