The Land of Spices
Garden City: Doubleday Doren, 1941.
Illustrated by Eckard dust jacket design. Early Printing. Hardcover. Very Good- in Good+ dust jacket. Item #15782
Light edgewear, light tone, otherwise light wear; Dust Jacket spine head and tail chipped, toned, edgeworn. Solid hardcover. ; "In prose of incantatory elegance The Land of Spices weaves it subtle spell: sophisticated and complex, irradiated by kindness and wisdom despite the chill of its chief protagonists. ... Having lost her own personal freedom through her father's wantonness, Reverend Moter seizes an opportunity for interference in Anna's life, and restores to the child she loves that gift of personal freedom sh has spent her religious life denying." - Matthew Dennison book review, The Spectator. Early (1942) Printing of the First American Edition in Dust Jacket. ; 0 pages.
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