The Street of Seven Stars (ADVANCE READING COPY)
by Rinehart, Mary Roberts
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very Good
- Seller
-
San Francisco, California, United States
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About This Item
Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1914. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. Advanced Reading Copy.. 12mo. No DJ. Advance/Sampler Edition. Includes 18 leaves of text (from the title page, onward) with the first four pages of Chapter 1 repeated four times in succession, followed by around 200 blank pages. "Dummy" stamped on front endpaper. Title, author's name, size (12mo), price ($1.25 net), and description of novel typed directly onto inside front cover. "To be published November 1914" also typed on inside front cover. Green cloth boards with silver-stamped lettering on front cover, no title along spine. Shelfwear: scuffing along edges and cover boards, a few light stains on rear cover, moderate tanning and foxing along page edges. Tightly bound, no marks. Volume is in Very Good condition..
Synopsis
From the book:The old stucco house sat back in a garden, or what must once have been a garden, when that part of the Austrian city had een a royal game preserve. Tradition had it that the Empress Maria Theresa had used the building as a hunting-lodge, and undoubtedly there was something royal in the proportions of the salon. With all the candles lighted in the great glass chandelier, and no sidelights, so that the broken paneling was mercifully obscured by gloom, it was easy to believe that the great empress herself had sat in one of the tall old chairs and listened to anecdotes of questionable character; even, if tradition may be believed, related not a few herself. The chandelier was not lighted on this rainy November night. Outside in the garden the trees creaked and bent before the wind, and the heavy barred gate, left open by the last comer, a piano student named Scatchett and dubbed "Scatch" - the gate slammed to and fro monotonously, giving now and then just enough pause for a hope that it had latched itself, a hope that was always destroyed by the next gust. One candle burned in the salon. Originally lighted for the purpose of enabling Miss Scatchett to locate the score of a Tschaikowsky concerto, it had been moved to the small center table, and had served to give light if not festivity to the afternoon coffee and cakes.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Russian Hill Bookstore
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 53258
- Title
- The Street of Seven Stars (ADVANCE READING COPY)
- Author
- Rinehart, Mary Roberts
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Edition
- Advanced Reading Copy.
- Publisher
- Houghton Mifflin Company
- Place of Publication
- Boston and New York
- Date Published
- 1914
- Keywords
- RINEHART SEVEN STARS
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About Russian Hill Bookstore
Russian Hill Bookstore, established in 1974, is one of the last family-owned used and new bookstores in San Francisco. We began as Sunset Bookstore in 1974, a small used bookshop servicing the Sunset District west of 19th Avenue, and have been in continual operation for the past 43 years. Over the years Sunset Bookstore has since closed and merged with Russian Hill Bookstore, which has grown to become also the best note card shop in the city, and a favorite place for toys and games for children of all ages.
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