Abacus

Bookseller

Plum Books (US)

Bookseller's Inventory #

7990

Title

Abacus

Author

Mary Karr

Book Condition

Used - VG/VG

Quantity Available

1

Binding

Hardcover

ISBN 10

0819521345

ISBN 13

9780819521347

Publisher

Wesleyan University Press,

Place of Publication

Middletown, Ct.:

Date Published

1987

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Poetry;

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