A Swiftly Tilting Planet
by L'Engle, Madeleine
- Used
- near fine
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Near Fine/Near Fine
- ISBN 10
- 0285624598
- ISBN 13
- 9780285624597
- Seller
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GIG HARBOR, Washington, United States
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About This Item
London: Souvenir Press Ltd, 1980. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. First UK edition of this third book in L'engle's Time Quintet. Near fine with bumped upper corners and a couple bumps to foredge of page block in like jacket with minimal wear. Though not marked as such, this copy comes from the personal library of the author.
Synopsis
A Swiftly Tilting Planet is a 1978 science fiction novel by Madeleine L'Engle, part of the Time Quartet. In A Swiftly Tilting Planet, Charles Wallace Murry, a very advanced and perceptive child in A Wrinkle in Time and A Wind in the Door, has grown into an adolescent. His intelligence and remarkable goodness carry him through an adventure in time to save the world from nuclear disaster threatened by Mad Dog Branzillo, the dictator of the fictional South American country of Vespugia.
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- Bookseller
- Peruse the Stacks (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 3296
- Title
- A Swiftly Tilting Planet
- Author
- L'Engle, Madeleine
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Near Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Near Fine
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- ISBN 10
- 0285624598
- ISBN 13
- 9780285624597
- Publisher
- Souvenir Press Ltd
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1980
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