Fighting with Shadows
by Dermot Healy
- Used
- near fine
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Near Fine/Near Fine
- ISBN 10
- 0850314577
- ISBN 13
- 9780850314571
- Seller
-
Dublin, Dublin, Ireland
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About This Item
First Edition. First Printing. Octavo. 147x225x28mm. Hardcover. Black cloth to boards with gilt lettering to title. Allison & Busby (London), 1984. 286 pp. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Wrapper Condition: Near Fine. Neatly price-clipped with inscription to front free endpaper. Otherwise immaculate.
Healy's critically acclaimed first novel. Set in rural Fermanagh in the 1980s, Fighting With Shadows is a story of conflict, distance and intimacy told with warmth and humour. A masterwork.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Quinn Rare Books (IE)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 5
- Title
- Fighting with Shadows
- Author
- Dermot Healy
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover. Black cloth to boards with gilt lettering to title.
- Book Condition
- Used - Near Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Near Fine
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition. First Impression.
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 0850314577
- ISBN 13
- 9780850314571
- Publisher
- Allison & Busby
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1984
- Pages
- 286
- Size
- Octavo. 147x225x28mm
- Bookseller catalogs
- Irish Fiction;
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Quinn Rare Books
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