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THE SMALL RAIN
by L'Engle, Madeleine
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Good in torn and partial Jacket
- Seller
-
Eugene, Oregon, United States
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About This Item
New York: The Vanguard Press, 1945. First Edition. Hardcover. Good in torn and partial Jacket. Octavo. Blue cloth over boards, with silver stencil-style lettering to spine. Shelfwear and sunning. $2.50 price to flap. Partial dustjacket. (Large chip -- up to 2 1/4 in. missing from top of front panel, wrapping around to spine. Additional small chip laid in. Previous owner's bookplate to front pastedown depiects classic figure with folded arms,holding large tome to chest. (Rockwell Kent?). L'Engle's first book about a young girl separated from her concert pianist mother by a tragic accident, and her own
blossoming and maturing into her understanding of her relationships to people and place, "with the one consistent and dominant force in her life: music...[a] journey from a distraught girl to an exhuberant and talented woman with the breadth and poignancy that defines Madeleine L'Engle's signature style..." (M.L'E. site).
blossoming and maturing into her understanding of her relationships to people and place, "with the one consistent and dominant force in her life: music...[a] journey from a distraught girl to an exhuberant and talented woman with the breadth and poignancy that defines Madeleine L'Engle's signature style..." (M.L'E. site).
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Details
- Bookseller
- Aardvark Rare Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 85325
- Title
- THE SMALL RAIN
- Author
- L'Engle, Madeleine
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good in torn and partial Jacket
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- The Vanguard Press
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1945
- Keywords
- A Wrinkle in Time,
- Bookseller catalogs
- Fiction;
Terms of Sale
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Aardvark Rare Books
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- Shelfwear
- Minor wear resulting from a book being place on, and taken from a bookshelf, especially along the bottom edge.
- 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....
- Cloth
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- Octavo
- Another of the terms referring to page or book size, octavo refers to a standard printer's sheet folded four times, producing...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- 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...
- Bookplate
- Highly sought after by some collectors, a book plate is an inscribed or decorative device that identifies the owner, or former...
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