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The Dry Well - Stories (Signed First Edition)
by Barton, Marlin
- Used
- near fine
- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- Near Fine/Fine
- ISBN 10
- 1929490070
- ISBN 13
- 9781929490073
- Seller
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Stanley, New York, United States
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About This Item
Savannah, Georgia: Frederic C Beil, 2001. Book. Near Fine. Hardcover. 1st Edition. First edition, first printing, SIGNED by the author (name only on title page). Cloth boards with lovely metallic print, dark green cloth spine with copper metallic lettering. No bumping or wear. Binding is tight and square, hinges are sound, pages and edges are clean. Clean orange endpapers. No previous owner names or markings. 219 pages. Clean dust jacket is unchipped, no wear, no tears, not price clipped; enclosed in new archival quality removable mylar cover. A collection of the author's twelve best stories, all set in the same small southern community in Alabama. These stories, written in a simple and powerful style, are about grace in the lives of ordinary men and women..
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- Bookseller
- Old Scrolls Book Shop - Biblio
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 033075
- Title
- The Dry Well - Stories (Signed First Edition)
- Author
- Barton, Marlin
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Near Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Fine
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- ISBN 10
- 1929490070
- ISBN 13
- 9781929490073
- Publisher
- Frederic C Beil
- Place of Publication
- Savannah, Georgia
- Date Published
- 2001
- Keywords
- SHORT STORIES, LITERATURE, FIRST EDITION, MARLIN BARTON, ALABAMA, DEEP SOUTH
- Bookseller catalogs
- Short Stories/Anthologies; SIGNED Editions;
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