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Scenes from American Life: Contemporary Short Fiction
by Oates, Joyce Carol (SIGNED)
- Used
- Fine
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Fine/Very Good
- ISBN 10
- 0814907504
- ISBN 13
- 9780814907504
- Seller
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Lyndhurst, Ontario, Canada
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About This Item
New York: The Vanguard Press, Inc., 1973. Presumed First Edition . Hardcover. Fine/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Fiction by: John Barth, Robert Coover, Harris Downey, Jesse Hill Ford, Gail Goodwin, Alistair MacCloud, David Madden, Bernard Malamud, Willard Marsh, James Alan McPherson, W.S. Merwin, Charles Newman, Joyce Carol Oates, Flannery Connor, Jean Stafford, Hollis Summers, Peter Taylor, John Updike, Eudora Welty, Sol Yurick. 271 pp. with a short introduction by editor, Joyce Carol Oates. Brown cloth covered boards have gilt text on spine. Spine ends slightly rubbed. Price clipped DJ has blank rear panel. DJ has edge wear, a few very small closed tears. Book is from the collection of Toronto author/poet Greg Gatenby whose signature as well as the date of the book's acquisition may be found top ffep. Editor Oates has signed the book above her name on the title page. SIGNED by Editor/contributor. Bookseller's Inventory # 122960.
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- Bookseller
- Lower Beverley Better Books
(CA)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 002960
- Title
- Scenes from American Life: Contemporary Short Fiction
- Author
- Oates, Joyce Carol (SIGNED)
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- Presumed First Edition
- ISBN 10
- 0814907504
- ISBN 13
- 9780814907504
- Publisher
- The Vanguard Press, Inc.
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1973
- Size
- 8vo - over 7¾" - 9&f
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About the Seller
Lower Beverley Better Books
Biblio member since 2014
Lyndhurst, Ontario
About Lower Beverley Better Books
An online bookstore that just grew from a combination of a love of books, a desire to save them from landfill and an inability to bypass yard sales. A considerable percentage of my inventory is signed editions. I also take pride in my Canadiana catalogue.
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- Gilt
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- Cloth
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