New Yoirk: Harper-Collins Publishers, 1995. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 1st Printing Hard cover in very good condition with deep green boards and spine cloth and gold gilt spine lettering. Gilt facsimile of author's signature on front board. Interior text block clean & tight, no writings, no markings noted but black marker line on bottom of text block - along entire width, not similar to usual remainder marks. Dust jacket very good; not price clipped. * From the front jacket: ""A novel by the Pulitzer Prize-Winning Author of 'The Mambo Kings Play Songs of Love."" From the rear jacket flap, "". . . Hijuelos has added a sense of awe and wonderment for those who seek to sustain their faith in an increasingly faithless world. Part love story - of a man for his wife, his children, for God - and part meditation on how a person can find peace in the aftermath of a shattering crisis, . . . a beautifully written, tender and passionate testament to the spiritual foundation of life and the human capacity for love.""

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Bookseller: Elk Creek Heritage Books (US)
Bookseller's Inventory #: M000384
Title: Mr. Ives' Christmas
Author: Hijuelos, Oscar
Format/Binding: Hardcover
Book Condition: Used - Very Good
Jacket Condition: Very Good
Quantity Available: 1
Edition: 1st Edition
ISBN 10: 0060171316
ISBN 13: 9780060171315
Publisher: Harper-Collins Publishers
Place of Publication: New Yoirk
Date Published: 1995
Keywords: Fiction, Christmas, Married men - United States - Religious life - Fiction, Fathers and sons - United States - Fiction, Violence - United States - Fiction, Children - Death - Fiction, Spiritual life - Fiction
Bookseller catalogs: Christmas Stories and Crafts;

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Elk Creek Heritage Books opened for business in 2002 with both online selling and an open shop. We continue now as an online-only bookshop and maintain a growing inventory with new additions regularly uploaded. Our largest subject areas include History, Religion, Biography, and Fiction, however, we also carry books on many other subjects, in addition to our collection of rare and antiquarian books. Our goal is to provide you, our customer, with a completely satisfactory experience.

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