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Life Wish
by Ireland, Jill
- Used
- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- Very Good in Near Fine dust jacket/Near Fine
- ISBN 10
- 0316109266
- ISBN 13
- 9780316109260
- Seller
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Iowa City, Iowa, United States
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About This Item
Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1987. Stated First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good in Near Fine dust jacket/Near Fine. Signed and inscribed to two named individuals by the author on the front free endpaper. Pages crisp and clean except for a pair of small, dark spots on each front endpaper and a yellowish spot at the bottom edge of the final endpaper; binding square and tight, hard cover showing yellow handling marks along both bottom edges, small wrinkles at the spine heel, and light corner rubbing, otherwise excellent. Jacket is crisp, bright, vivid, unclipped, and now protected in a clear sleeve. A film star and mother of seven, Ireland fought breast cancer and won; this memoir describes her family, their support, the options she pursued, and the realizations she made along the way.; Signed by Author.
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Details
- Bookseller
- The Haunted Bookshop, LLC
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 067825
- Title
- Life Wish
- Author
- Ireland, Jill
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good in Near Fine dust jacket
- Jacket Condition
- Near Fine
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- Stated First Edition
- ISBN 10
- 0316109266
- ISBN 13
- 9780316109260
- Publisher
- Little, Brown and Company
- Place of Publication
- Boston
- Date Published
- 1987
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
The Haunted Bookshop, LLC
Biblio member since 2005
Iowa City, Iowa
About The Haunted Bookshop, LLC
The Haunted Bookshop is an open shop with over 40,000 quality used, out-of-print, and antiquarian titles for students, scholars, collectors, artists, families and children. The store has been in business for over 35 years, now in a historic home near downtown Iowa City. Our open hours are 10-8 daily.
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- First Edition
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- Spine
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- Fine
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- Heel
- The lower most portion of the spine when the book is standing vertically.
- Jacket
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- Crisp
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- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- Inscribed
- When a book is described as being inscribed, it indicates that a short note written by the author or a previous owner has been...
- 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
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