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Repent In Haste
by John P. Marquand
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good+/Very Good
- Seller
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Nashua, New Hampshire, United States
Item Price
A$14.72A$13.25
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About This Item
First hardcover edition, published by Little, Brown, 1945. The dust jacket is intact and is not price clipped. Short novel set just fter Pearl Harbor, about the friendship between a war correspondent and a your Navy flyer, complications ensue when the writer becomes involved with the flyer's family back in the States. Smaller format hardcover, 5" X 7-/12", 152 pages. Jacket has a chip at the top right corner, about 1" X 1", also chips at the head and heel of the spine - both about 3/4" deep, some fading to the spine panel. Jacket has been protected with a clear, removable cover. Light brown cloth covered boards, with the title and author name imprinted in black. All lettering on the cover is crisp and legible, no edge wear, no bumping to the corners, small smudge mark from use on the front cover. There is some paper residue where a former owner's book plate was removed from the frontpaste-down page - about 3" X 4". Erased pencil mark on the top right corner of the first flyleaf of a former price. No former ownership marks, no writing on the text pages. Edges of the text block are clean. Not a library discard. Attached photo is of the copy we have in our inventory.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Hopkins Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 22-03225
- Title
- Repent In Haste
- Author
- John P. Marquand
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good+
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Little, Brown and Co.
- Date Published
- 1945
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Bookseller catalogs
- Fiction; WWII;
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Hopkins Books
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Nashua, New Hampshire
About Hopkins Books
We're a small, independent, family run book seller specializing in current fiction and non-fiction, with an emphasis on Art, Art History, History, Memoirs, Travel Memoirs, Signed First Editions, and Literature in Translation.Do you have any questions about our books ? Let us know, we'd love to hear from you! Do you want to see a photo of a book before you order it ? We try to post as many photos as possbiel, but sometimes there will be a item in inventory that does not show a photo here. So feel free to ask for photos, we don't mind at all. We package all of our orders carefully either in a box that has been designed to ship books, or in a padded envelope. We want to make sure you receive your order in the best possible condition!Our preferred shipping method is USPS Media Mail. Recently, the USPS has added tracking to Media Mail , which has been a great addition to this service.If you do choose to have your order shipped "Expedited", my shipping cost may seem higher than expected. Some of our books are large format hardcovers that can cost quite a bit when shipped expedited. So I would like to make sure that I can cover the cost upfront. However, if the actual cost of expedited shipping is less than the charge, I will refund the difference!
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- Jacket
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- Plate
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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....
- Heel
- The lower most portion of the spine when the book is standing vertically.
- Edges
- The collective of the top, fore and bottom edges of the text block of the book, being that part of the edges of the pages of a...
- Crisp
- A term often used to indicate a book's new-like condition. Indicates that the hinges are not loosened. A book described as crisp...
- Cloth
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