From Quinto Bookshop, London, United Kingdom
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AbeBooks Seller since 28 February 2020
About this Item
Translated from the Dutch by Jacobine Menzies-Wilson. Maroon cloth boards with gilt lettering to spine. Boards slightly darkened. Small inscription to front paste-down and neat stamp from The Times Book Club to lower paste-down. In unclipped dust jacket with original price of 9s. 6d. Chipped with some loss to spine ends and folds, with a small piece missing at the corner of upper panel. *** The first novel to be translated into English written by the Dutch realist novelist Antoon Coolen (1897-1961). It was originally published in 1938 as Herberg In 't Misverstand and follows the lives of some the regulars at the pub The Cross Purposes in a small provincial town in the Netherlands. Seller Inventory # 000265
Bibliographic Details
Title: The Cross Purposes
Publisher: Collins
Publication Date: 1948
Binding: Hardcover
Condition: Near Fine
Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine
Edition: 1st Edition
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