Lorna Doone

Bookseller

Barbed Wire Books (US)

Bookseller's Inventory #

m1152

Title

Lorna Doone

Author

R.D. Blackmore

Illustrator

John Austen

Format/Binding

Full leather

Book Condition

Used - Near Fine

Quantity Available

1

Binding

Hardcover

Publisher

Easton Press

Place of Publication

Norwalk, CT

Date Published

1971 (1943)

Weight

0.00 lbs

Bookseller catalogs

Fiction; Easton Press;

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