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A Single Thread A Novel
by Tracy Chevalier
- Used
- Fine
- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- Fine/Fine
- Seller
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Walcott, Iowa, United States
Item Price
A$131.70A$118.53
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About This Item
Viking. New York. 2019. An imprint of Penguin Random House. Fine First Edition (stated) First Printing with requisite number line for Random House ending in 2. Quarter-bound in purple with green cloth boards and gilt lettering to spine. A rather unique color scheme for a book. Signed on second flyleaf by author. Note - "Signed Book" sticker on cover professionally removed. Fine unclipped ($27.00) jacket protected with removable mylar cover shows minor shelf wear. It's 1932 and Violet Speedwell has lost her brother and fiance in the Great War (WW I). Due to the war killing so many young men, Violet is in danger of becoming a "surplus woman" looking at a future of taking care of her grieving mother. What will Violet risk to protect the life she had made for herself? 6x9.25 in. With acknowledgments, 321 pg.
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- Bookseller
- Lamplighter Library
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 230
- Title
- A Single Thread A Novel
- Author
- Tracy Chevalier
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Fine
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First
- Publisher
- Viking
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 2019
- Pages
- 321
- Size
- 8vo
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- WW I, WW II, single woman
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Lamplighter Library
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Walcott, Iowa
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- First Edition
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- Fine
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- Cloth
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