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Cliffs of Fall
by Shirley Hazzard
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- very good
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/Very Good-
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About This Item
London: Macmillan & Co Ltd, 1963. Very Good/Very Good-. London: Macmillan & Co Ltd, 1963. First Edition. Octavo; publisher's cloth in white decorative dust jacket retaining original price (21s.); vii,[1],208pp. Rather heavy wear to jacket margins including several long closed tears with subsequent creasing, faint pencil note along bottom margin of upper jacket panel, minor dust-soil, corners tapped, light foxing to top textblock edge, else a Very Good, internally clean and sound copy.
The Australian-born author's first book, a collection of short stories, all but one of which first appeared in the "New Yorker." Described here as "a minor official at the United Nations," Hazzard went on to win the National Book Award for her 2003 novel "The Great Fire.
The Australian-born author's first book, a collection of short stories, all but one of which first appeared in the "New Yorker." Described here as "a minor official at the United Nations," Hazzard went on to win the National Book Award for her 2003 novel "The Great Fire.
Synopsis
Born in Australia, Shirley Hazzard traveled the world during her early years, a result of her parents' diplomatic postings. In 1947, at the age of 16, she was engaged by British intelligence to monitor the civil war in China. In 1963, she married the writer Francis Steegmuller, who died in 1994. She has written several novels, two of which were National Book Award Finalists: The Bay of Noon (1971) and The Transit of Venus (1981, available from Penguin). She is also the author of two collections of short stories, and several works of nonfiction including the memoir Greene on Capri . Hazzard's most recent work, The Great Fire , won of the 2003 National Book Award for Fiction and the Miles Franklin Award. She now lives in New York, making frequent travels to Italy.
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- Bookseller
- Capitol Hill Books, ABAA
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 29036
- Title
- Cliffs of Fall
- Author
- Shirley Hazzard
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good-
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- Macmillan & Co Ltd
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1963
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Capitol Hill Books is a used bookstore in the Eastern Market neighborhood of Washington, DC. We have three floors of quality used books, first editions, and rare books.
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