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Barking Man and Other Stories
by Madison Smartt Bell
- Used
- near fine
- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- Near Fine/Near Fine
- ISBN 10
- 089919835X
- ISBN 13
- 9780899198354
- Seller
-
Carrollton, Texas, United States
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About This Item
New York: Ticknor & Fields, 1990. SIGNED. NF/NF. First Edition. First printing with complete 10 number line ending in 1. Signed by Madison Smartt Bell with a small drawing on the title page. The book is tight and square with solid hinges and binding, good tips, and clean unmarred boards. The spine ends are gently pushed. The textblock has a faint small sticker shadow on the front dark green endpaper, else clean with no writing, bookplate, or markings and not BCE, ex-library, or remaindered. The dust jacket is unclipped ($19.95) with faint rubbing to the back panel. Protected in a new Brodart Mylar cover. 230 pages. 5 1/2" X 8 1/2" tall.
In ten sharply drawn tales, Madison Smartt Bell expands his deftly textured fictional landscape to portray a collection of America's dispossessed characters.
From the meticulously imagined perspective of a monk-like Chinese mouse, who accepts the exigencies of caged life with courage and admirable intelligence ("Holding Together''), to the frustrations and sorrow of a young former drug addict trying to regain custody of her son in "Customs of the Country,'' Bell creates characters whose circumstances and states of mind are both recognizable and revealing.
Madison Smart Bell's All Souls' Rising, the first novel in his Haitian trilogy, was a finalist for the 1995 National Book Award and won the 1996 Anisfield-Wolf Award for fiction, which honors books that have made important contributions to our understanding of racism and our appreciation of the rich diversity of human cultures.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Armadillo Alley Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 3168
- Title
- Barking Man and Other Stories
- Author
- Madison Smartt Bell
- Format/Binding
- Cloth
- Book Condition
- Used - Near Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Near Fine
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition / First Printing
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 089919835X
- ISBN 13
- 9780899198354
- Publisher
- Ticknor & Fields
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1990
- Keywords
- short stories
- Bookseller catalogs
- First Editions; Signed Books;
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
Armadillo Alley Books
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Carrollton, Texas
About Armadillo Alley Books
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