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The Book of Intrusions
by MacNamara, Desmond
- Used
- Near Fine
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Near Fine/Fine
- ISBN 10
- 1564780414
- ISBN 13
- 9781564780416
- Seller
-
Chico, California, United States
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
Normal, Illinois: Dalkey Archive Press, 1994. The author's first novel, but with roots: MacNamara was a model for one of the characters in J.P. Donleavy's "The Ginger Man." This is a Near Fine copy of the First Edition. Green cloth binding with silver lettering on the spine. A small RM on bottom edge, and some pencil erasures on the half-title, else Fine. The dustjacket is unclipped; in a plastic protector. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. First Edition.. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Fine.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Quercus Rare Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 000327
- Title
- The Book of Intrusions
- Author
- MacNamara, Desmond
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Near Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Fine
- Edition
- First Edition.
- ISBN 10
- 1564780414
- ISBN 13
- 9781564780416
- Publisher
- Dalkey Archive Press
- Place of Publication
- Normal, Illinois
- Date Published
- 1994
- Bookseller catalogs
- Modern Literature (Irish Authors);
Terms of Sale
Quercus Rare Books
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About the Seller
Quercus Rare Books
Biblio member since 2006
Chico, California
About Quercus Rare Books
Quercus Books seeks out and provides to the discriminating Reader or Collector noteworthy books in the First Edition. Our particular focus is on Modern Literature (roughly from the Second World War to the present) and Irish Authors. We also retain a small stock of non-fiction titles, mostly in the fields of American Western History, American Indians, and the American Civil War. Member of IOBA - the Independent Online Booksellers Association.
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- Fine
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- Spine
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- First Edition
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