Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1978. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 5x0x8. Signed. Stated first printing. Inscribed by Madeleine L'Engle to previous owners at FFEP. Black cloth with silver spine titling, very good with light spotting to back. Spine square. Binding sound. Dust jacket very good in Mylar with light toning and edgewear, including a few small closed tears from top edge of rear panel and a tiny chip from top edge of front. Textblock edges foxed. Interior clean and bright, text unmarked.

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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: The Book Bin (US)
Bookseller's Inventory #: BBS-2018460
Title: A Swiftly Tilting Planet
Author: L'Engle, Madeleine
Format/Binding: Hardcover
Book Condition: Used - Very Good
Jacket Condition: Very Good
Quantity Available: 1
Edition: First Edition
ISBN 10: 0374373620
ISBN 13: 9780374373627
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Place of Publication: New York
Date Published: 1978
Size: 5x0x8
X weight: 16 oz

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