- First Edition
- Used
Seller: Worlds End Bookshop (ABA, PBFA, ILAB), LONDON, United KingdomWorlds End Bookshop (ABA, PBFA, ILAB)
AbeBooks seller since April 16, 1999
Condition: Used - Very good
US$ 340.67
Quantity: 1 available
Add to basketItem description from seller
Presentation copy from the author, signed to first endpaper and dated September 23rd 1958. First Edition. Publisher’s black cloth, spine lettered in yellow. With the unclipped dust-jacket, designed by Ronald Glendenning, chipped along the top edge of front panel and at head of the spine; corner tips worn. A fine copy in the VG+ jacket. E. Arnot Robertson (1903-1961) wrote eight novels. Combining wit with a talent for storytelling and a realistic romantic eye, she was one of the most popular English novelists of the 1930s and 40s. With her husband, H.E. Turner and adopted son, they lived at Heath Street, Hampstead, in the 1940. Her suicide in 1961 came about partly due to her husband’s death the year before in a boating accident. Probably her best-known work is Ordinary Families, first published in 1933 (reissued by Virago), a classic portrayal of English family life, sibling rivalry, and ‘the complexities of betrayal that lie beneath the surface of a health boating family’ [Oxford Companion to 20th Century Literature in English, p.575].…
Seller Inventory # ABE-1781006258957
Bibliographic details
- Title
- Justice of the Heart
- Author
- ROBERTSON, Eileen Arnot
- Publisher
- Collins, London
- Publication year
- 1958
- Condition
- Very good
- Dust jacket
- Dust Jacket Included
- Signed
- Inscribed by Author(s)
- Edition
- 1st Edition
Worlds End Bookshop (ABA, PBFA, ILAB)
LONDON, United Kingdom
Shipping rates from United Kingdom to U.S.A.
| Item | 5 to 8 business days | 3 to 5 business days |
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| First item | US$ 39.69 | US$ 50.27 |
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Antiquarian and second-hand bookstore in the heart of fashionable Chelsea, in London, an area famed for its links to bohemian London and the beau monde scene of the 1960s and 70s.
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Worlds End Bookshop (ABA, PBFA, ILAB)
United Kingdom
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