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MASTER GEORGIE
Edition: First US printing.
New York: Carroll & Graf, 1998. dj. Hardcover first edition - Nominated for the Booker Prize (her 5th to be so honored) - British reviews called this historical novel set in 19th century Liverpool and on the horror-filled battlefields of the Crimean War as "entertaining..harrowing... haunting..devasting.". ISBN: 0-7867-05639.
Condition: Very near fine in a like dustjacket (remainder line.)
Book ID: 19426More details Price: $18.50 -
MASTER GEORGIE
Edition: 1st trade paperback printing.
New York: Carroll & Graf, (1999). Nominated for the Booker Prize (her 5th to be so honored) - British reviews called this historical novel set in 19th century Liverpool and on the horror-filled battlefields of the Crimean War as "entertaining..harrowing... haunting..devasting." 190 pp. ISBN: 0-7867-0697X.
Condition: Near fine in glossy illustrated wrappers (remainder line, nick to upper edge of back cover, appears unread.)
Book ID: 58272More details Price: $11.50 -
THE REASON WHY.
Edition: 3rd printing.
New York: McGraw-Hill, 1954. Hardcover - Fascinating history of the Crimean War and the story behind the battle immortalized by Tennyson's poem: 'The Charge of the Light Brigade' - 'Theirs not to reason why / Theirs but to do and die.' The first full account of this symbolic battle. Woodham-Smith's second book, one which came naturally out of her first one, the landmark biography of Florence Nightingale. Sources, index. 287 pp.
Condition: Very good (prev owner's name), no dj.
Book ID: 15753More details Price: $13.50
