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FORREST GUMP
by Groom, Winston
- Used
- near fine
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Near Fine/Very Good
- ISBN 10
- 0385231342
- ISBN 13
- 9780385231343
- Seller
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Rougemont, North Carolina, United States
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About This Item
Garden City, New York: Doubleday & Company, Inc, 1986. 1st edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. 1st edition stated, 1986. A Near Fine book in a Very Good dust jacket. 8vo., 228 pp., bound in publishers grey cloth and yellow paper in illustrated dust jacket, $14.95. Minor rubbing to edges of jacket, light chipping to top and base of spine. Text is clean and unmarked, light spotting to text edges. Dust jacket now protected in mylar sleeve. Winston Francis Groom Jr. (March 23, 1943 - September 17, 2020) was an American author. He is best known for his novel Forrest Gump (1986), which became a cultural phenomenon after being adapted as a 1994 film of the same name, starring Tom Hanks.
Synopsis
Winston Groom is the author of sixteen books, including Forrest Gump, Gump and Co., Patriotic Fire, Shrouds of Glory, and Conversations with the Enemy (with Duncan Spencer), a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize. He lives with his wife and daughter in Point Clear, Alabama.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Frey Fine Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 32020
- Title
- FORREST GUMP
- Author
- Groom, Winston
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Near Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 1st edition
- ISBN 10
- 0385231342
- ISBN 13
- 9780385231343
- Publisher
- Doubleday & Company, Inc
- Place of Publication
- Garden City, New York
- Date Published
- 1986
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
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Rougemont, North Carolina
About Frey Fine Books
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- Jacket
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- Fine
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- Cloth
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- New
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- Spine
- The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....
- Chipping
- A defect in which small pieces are missing from the edges; fraying or small pieces of paper missing the edge of a paperback, or...
- Edges
- The collective of the top, fore and bottom edges of the text block of the book, being that part of the edges of the pages of a...
- Rubbing
- Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.
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