CONDITION: Spine and binding tight. Spine is flat & straight. Hard cover shows as flat, with no wear, no damage and shows tanning. Dust jacket shows minor wear, see pic. No writing or markings. Pages clean/flat w/no damage w/slight tanning.

Sophie, a young English woman with two children, goes to set up home in fabulous Kashmir, finding a tumbled-down house in a valley carpeted with flowers below the Himalayas. Settling down to live there she is blissfully ignorant of the turmoil that her arrival produces. Sophie's cook is finally prompted to take action and the consequences of his innocent plotting are catastrophic.


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Terminology that may be used in this description:

Bookplate: Highly sought after by some collectors, a book plate is an inscribed or decorative device that identifies the owner, or former owner, of a book. Most often bookplates are affixed to the endpaper of a book.

Bump: 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.

Deckle Edge: Deckle edge is the feathered edge of a page. Traditionally and historically, this was a side effect of the process of making paper.

Dust Jacket: Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps around the binding of a book

Ex-library: A former library book, generally containing library acquisition and ownership stamped Markings, and other typical indications of the library's use.

Foxing: Or, Foxed is the age related browning, or brown-yellowish spots, that can occur to book paper over time. When this aging process happens to the paper in a book it is referred to as "foxed".

Remainder Mark: A remainder marked book is just that - a mark to the page edges of a book. This mark is placed on the page edges by a publisher as books are returned from bookstores or sold to discounters.

Rubbing: Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.

Shelf Wear: (shelving wear) describes damage caused over time to a book by placing and removing a book from a shelf.

Soiled: Generally, refers to minor discoloration or staining.