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Girls: A Novel
by BUSCH, Frederick
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket
- ISBN 10
- 0517704552
- ISBN 13
- 9780517704554
- Seller
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Littleton, Colorado, United States
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About This Item
New York: Harmony Books / Crown Publishers, Inc.. Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket. 1997. Hardcover. 0517704552 . A fourth printing of Frederick Busch's novel, which is the story of Jack and Fanny, a couple in upstate New York who mourn the death of their young daughter. When another young girl goes missing, Jack attempts to find her and to find a way out of the misery he and his wife feel. --- In ivory and black paper-covered boards with gilt-stamped spine titling. Jacket features John Hubbard photographic portrait of the author to back flap. --- A clean, tightly-bound, bright copy but with tiny remainder mark to textblock lower edge. Unclipped jacket with slight rubbing, otherwise in great shape and wrapped in removable archival mylar protector.; Tall Octavo - 9 to 10 in. tall; (8), 279 pages .
Synopsis
Frederick Busch is the recipient of the PEN/Malamud Award, the National Jewish Book Award, and a fiction award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. His last book, The Children in the Woods , was a finalist for the 1995 Pen/Faulkner Award. He has been acting director of the Writer's Workshop at the University of Iowa and is currently the Edgar Fairchild Professor of Literature at Colgate University.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Bluebird Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 86103
- Title
- Girls: A Novel
- Author
- BUSCH, Frederick
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket
- ISBN 10
- 0517704552
- ISBN 13
- 9780517704554
- Publisher
- Harmony Books / Crown Publishers, Inc.
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1997
- Keywords
- 0517704552
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- Fine
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- Jacket
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- Remainder Mark
- Usually an ink marking of some sort which indicates that the book was designated a remainder. In most cases, it can be found on...
- Rubbing
- Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.
- 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....
- Octavo
- Another of the terms referring to page or book size, octavo refers to a standard printer's sheet folded four times, producing...
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