- Seller Inventory #: kb012394
- Format: Hardcover
- Book condition: Good
- Jacket condition: Good
- Edition: Book Club
- Binding: Hardcover
- Publisher: Doubleday
- Place: Garden City, NY
- Date published: 1986
Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1986. Book Club. Hardcover. Good/Good. 371 pages; spine cocked slightly, corners bumped, edge wear and rubbing to boards and jacket; Susanna Pleydell is a charming young innocent who has a very special power - a gift for healing - and when in India, she marries a philanderer, Aubrey St Clare. Susanna expects to live happily ever after but she discovers that the man she married has a sinister, dark secret
boards : Common term for the covers of a hardbound book.
rubbing : Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually
used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.
spine : The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf. Also known as the back.
cocked : Refers to a state where the spine of a book is lightly "twisted" in such a way that the front and rear boards of a book do not align when the book is lying flat. Severity may differ.
bumped : Indicates that the affected part of the book has been impacted in such a way so as to cause a flattening, indention, or light bending.
