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Tara's Healing
by Janice Holt Giles
- Used
- Very Good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/Good
- ISBN 10
- 0395140994
- ISBN 13
- 9780395140994
- Seller
-
WINFIELD, Kansas, United States
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About This Item
New York, NY: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1972 Houghton Mifflin Company, New York. 1951. Hardcover. Stated Second Printing. Book is tight, square, and unmarked but for former owner name on the FFFP. Book Condition: VG+: upper tip bump, bumps to head and tail; small stain on text block top. DJ: Good; NOT price clipped; chipping and small missing pieces on top edge and bottom at spine. Brownish-gray boards and spine with bright red lettering on spine and front board. 253pp 8vo. This is the author's third novel and the last of her Kentucky Mountain Trilogy. This is the story of Tara Cochrane who came back from WWI and had a nervous breakdown, then heads to the hill country where a Church of the Brethren of Christ helps Tara to heal and in turn he gives himself to the Piney Ridge people. A clean presentable copy in a Brodart mylar jacket.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Walnut Valley Books/Books by White
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 004636
- Title
- Tara's Healing
- Author
- Janice Holt Giles
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- ISBN 10
- 0395140994
- ISBN 13
- 9780395140994
- Publisher
- Houghton Mifflin Company
- Place of Publication
- New York, NY
- Date Published
- 1972
- Size
- 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾
- Keywords
- Tara Cochrane, WWI, World War I, Kentucky Mountains, White Caps, Church of the Brethren of Christ, nervous breakdown, PTSD, Shell Shock, Piney Ridge Great Smokies, American Frontier,
Terms of Sale
Walnut Valley Books/Books by White
30 day return guarantee, with full refund including original shipping costs for up to 30 days after delivery if an item arrives misdescribed or in the unfortunate event, damaged. All books are packed and wrapped with care to avoid shifting during shipment and edge/tip strikes during the mailing process.
About the Seller
Walnut Valley Books/Books by White
Biblio member since 2018
WINFIELD, Kansas
About Walnut Valley Books/Books by White
Walnut Valley Books is a small independent home-based business with the bulk of my holdings being of an American military nature covering everything from the Revolutionary War to the current wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. I also have holdings of books on the Middle East, the southwestern United States (New Mexico especially, Kansas related titles, Oklahoma related titles, and other regionally specialized books. All of my holdings are hand-selected to be good quality books of interest to the reader, historian, or the collector. In addition to the above, you will also find a wide range of other topics such as Medical, US History, autobiographical, biographical, sports, women's studies, and many other eclectic topics.
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- Generally used to refer to a clear plastic cover that is sometimes added to the dustjacket or outside covering of a book. The...
- Tight
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- Chipping
- A defect in which small pieces are missing from the edges; fraying or small pieces of paper missing the edge of a paperback, or...
- Jacket
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