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First Love: A Gothic Tale - 1st Edition/1st Printing
by Oates, Joyce Carol
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Fine+ in Fine dust jacket
- ISBN 10
- 0880014571
- ISBN 13
- 9780880014571
- Seller
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Summerville, South Carolina, United States
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About This Item
Hopewell, NJ: Ecco Press. Fine+ in Fine dust jacket. 1996. First Edition; First Printing. Cloth. 0880014571 . A handsome stated first edition/first printing in Very Fine condition in Fine dust-jacket which shows a bit of sunning on spine and along edges. Beautifully bound in black stamped burgundy cloth; Eleven-year-old Josie and her self-indulgent mother Delia have come to live with great-aunt Esther Burkhardt in upstate New York. Here Josie meets her withdrawn 25-year-old cousin Jared, Jr. , on leave from seminary, who draws Josie into some bizarre sexual rituals. A haunting novel about the pain and helplessness of sexually abused children abandoned by the adults in their lives. First published in the Ontario Review in 1966 ; Woodcuts; 16mo .
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- Bookseller
- Books Tell You Why, Inc.
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 20143
- Title
- First Love: A Gothic Tale - 1st Edition/1st Printing
- Author
- Oates, Joyce Carol
- Illustrator
- Illustrated by Barry Moser
- Format/Binding
- Cloth
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine+ in Fine dust jacket
- Edition
- First Edition; First Printing
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 0880014571
- ISBN 13
- 9780880014571
- Publisher
- Ecco Press
- Place of Publication
- Hopewell, NJ
- Date Published
- 1996
- Keywords
- Collectible Rare Out-Of-Print, Cons Strang, Child Abuse Fiction
- Bookseller catalogs
- Author Collections / Oates, Joyce Carol;
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