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Babel Tower
by Byatt, A.S
- Used
- good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Good/Good
- ISBN 10
- 0701137185
- ISBN 13
- 9780701137182
- Seller
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Didcot, Oxfordshire, United Kingdom
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About This Item
London, U.K.: Chatto & Windus, 1996. First edition first print hardcover. Price-clipped dust jacket has several superficial scores and indentations. Leading edges of jacket are slightly worn. Page block and page edges are quite yellowed. Light staining to leading corners of front board. Hardcover spine head is a little bumped. Binding is sound and pages are tight throughout. Text is clear. AF. First Edition. Hardcover. Good/Good. Used.
Synopsis
A.S. Byatt is the author of Possession , winner of the Booker Prize and a national bestseller. The two novels leading up to Babel Tower , which trace the fortunes of Frederica and her family through the 1950's, are The Virgin in the Garden and Still Life . Byatt's other fiction includes The Shadow of the Sun , The Game , Angels and Insects and two collections of shorter works: Sugar and Other Stories and The Matisse Stories . She has also published three volumes of critical work, of which Passions of the Mind is the most recent. She has taught English and American literature at University College, London, and is a distinguished critic and reviewer. She lives in London.
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- Bookseller
- PsychoBabel & Skoob Books
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 288191a
- Title
- Babel Tower
- Author
- Byatt, A.S
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Jacket Condition
- Good
- Edition
- First Edition
- ISBN 10
- 0701137185
- ISBN 13
- 9780701137182
- Publisher
- Chatto & Windus
- Place of Publication
- London, U.K.
- Date Published
- 1996
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