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The Bridges at Toko-Ri
by MICHENER James A
- Used
- Good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Good/Good
- Seller
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Christchurch, Canterbury, New Zealand
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About This Item
London: Secker, 1953 lacks free end paper, pen gift inscription to half title, heavy foxing to prelims and page edges, dust jacket unclipped but with some wear and some loss to spine ends and corners, 136pp, Naval jet bombers from aircraft carriers over Korea, (500 gram rate) . First Edition. Hard Cover. Good/Good. 12mo - over 6? - 7? tall.
Synopsis
James A. Michener was one of the world’s most popular writers, the author of more than forty books of fiction and nonfiction, including the Pulitzer Prize–winning Tales of the South Pacific, the bestselling novels The Source, Hawaii, Alaska, Chesapeake, Centennial, Texas, Caribbean, and Caravans, and the memoir The World Is My Home . Michener served on the advisory council to NASA and the International Broadcast Board, which oversees the Voice of America. Among dozens of awards and honors, he received America’s highest civilian award, the Presidential Medal of Freedom, in 1977, and an award from the President’s Committee on the Arts and Humanities in 1983 for his commitment to art in America. Michener died in 1997 at the age of ninety.
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- Bookseller
- Fortuna Books
(NZ)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 011416
- Title
- The Bridges at Toko-Ri
- Author
- MICHENER James A
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Jacket Condition
- Good
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- Secker
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1953
- Keywords
- American Literature Fiction Korean War Fiction Naval Aviation Aircraft Carrier Jet Bomber
- Bookseller catalogs
- FICTION LITERATURE & CRITICISM;
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