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The arm of the starfish

Title: The arm of the starfish / Madeleine L'Engle.
Author: L'Engle, Madeleine.
Publication: [New York] : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, ©1965.

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Description

243 pages; 22 cm

Summary

A marine biology student reporting to his summer job on an island off Portugal finds himself at the center of a power struggle between his boss and another group of Americans.

Subjects

Genre/Form

Action and adventure fiction.

Note

"Ariel Books."
"Manufactured in the United States of America by American Book-Stratford Press, Inc. Design: Betty Crumley"--title page verso.
"Jacket design by Ellen Raskin"--lower flap of book jacket.

Provenance (note)

Inscribed in ink, on upper end leaf, "For Vearl Moody - "A heavy fog enveloped Kennedy International. The roar of the great planes was silenced but in the airport there was noise & confusion. Adam wandered about, trying not to look lost, keeping one ear open to the blaring of the loud speakers in case his flight to Lisbon should be called or cancelled. His bags had long since disappeared on the perpetually moving conveyer belt, & he was too excited to sit anywhere with a book. All he could do was walk about, looking & listening, caught up in the general feeling of tension. Madeleine L'Engle."

Binding (note)

Bound in publisher's yellow and black stamped quarter blue cloth with blind stamped blue paper boards; with pictorial color printed dust jacket.

Call Number

Rare Books 20-466

ISBN

0374303967
9780374303969

LCCN

65010919

OCLC

20751415

Author

L'Engle, Madeleine.

Title

The arm of the starfish / Madeleine L'Engle.

Imprint

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Provenance

Inscribed in ink, on upper end leaf, "For Vearl Moody - "A heavy fog enveloped Kennedy International. The roar of the great planes was silenced but in the airport there was noise & confusion. Adam wandered about, trying not to look lost, keeping one ear open to the blaring of the loud speakers in case his flight to Lisbon should be called or cancelled. His bags had long since disappeared on the perpetually moving conveyer belt, & he was too excited to sit anywhere with a book. All he could do was walk about, looking & listening, caught up in the general feeling of tension. Madeleine L'Engle." NN

Binding

Bound in publisher's yellow and black stamped quarter blue cloth with blind stamped blue paper boards; with pictorial color printed dust jacket. NN

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Added Author

Crumley, Betty, book designer.

Raskin, Ellen, bookjacket designer.

American Book-Stratford Press, printer.

Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, publisher.

Research Call Number

Rare Books 20-466

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