Inscribed first edition of the penultimate volume of L'Engle's much-adored Time Quintet.
Very good in very good jacket.
Price: $150.00
"'I can wait,' the old man whispered, 'until the last star goes out.'"
First printing. New York: Farrar Straus Giroux, (1986). 8'' x 5.25''. Original quarter dark purple cloth over lilac paper-covered boards, gilt-stamped spine titles and initials design to front board. Original unclipped ($12.95) pictorial jacket illustrated by Charles Mikolaycak. "L'Engle Family Tree" endpapers. [10], 310 pages. Inscribed by L'Engle in blue color pencil to title page: "For Alexis - / [MANY WATERS] / cannot quench love - / Madeleine L'Engle." Book with light toning to extremities. Jacket with "By the Author of" sticker to front panel, light edgewear, bit of toning to flap edges, else bright.
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