Ellis Island & Other Stories
by HELPRIN, Mark
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very good +/Very good +
- ISBN 10
- 0440022045
- ISBN 13
- 9780440022046
- Seller
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London, Ontario, Canada
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About This Item
New York: Delacorte Press/Seymour Lawrence, 1981. First printing. Hardcover. Very good +/Very good +. 196 p. 22 cm. Beige cloth with burgundy paper boards in mylar-covered dustjacket. Spotting to top edge. Spine sunned.
Includes The Schreuderspitze, Letters from Samantha, A Vermont Tale, White Gardens, Tamar, Ellis Island, etc.
Includes The Schreuderspitze, Letters from Samantha, A Vermont Tale, White Gardens, Tamar, Ellis Island, etc.
Synopsis
Winner of the Prix de Rome and the National Jewish Book Award, these ten stories and the title novella, "Ellis Island," exhibit tremendous range and versatility of style and technique, yet are closely unified in their beauty and in their concern with enduring and universal questions.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Attic Books (CA)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 132129
- Title
- Ellis Island & Other Stories
- Author
- HELPRIN, Mark
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very good +
- Jacket Condition
- Very good +
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First printing
- ISBN 10
- 0440022045
- ISBN 13
- 9780440022046
- Publisher
- Delacorte Press/Seymour Lawrence
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1981
- Keywords
- Short stories
- Bookseller catalogs
- Literature;
Terms of Sale
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- Cloth
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- Spine
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- Sunned
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