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Setting Free the Bears (signed)
by JOHN IRVING
- Used
- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- Hardcover. First Edition, Second Printing of Irving's first book. Author signature on laid in card. Fine ina near fine dustjack/Near Fine
- Seller
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Potomac, Maryland, United States
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About This Item
First Edition, Second Printing of Irving's first book. Author signature on laid in card. Fine in a near fine dustjacket with slight red stain to lower corner and head of spine. Original DJ with $5.95 price and 1/69. Fine red cloth backed boards stamped in gold on the spine. Top edge stained red. Unmarked, tight and square. "Setting Free the Bears is the most nourishing, satisfying comedy I have read in years. I admire the hell out of it." (Kurt Vonnegut Jr.). A wonderful copy for the Irving fan.
Synopsis
This is about the novel; for the organization, see Free the Bears Fund. Setting Free the Bears is the first novel by American author John Irving, published in 1968 by Random House. Irving studied at the Institute of European Studies in Vienna in 1963 and Bears was written between 1965 and 1967 based largely on Irving’s understanding of the city and its rebellious youth of the sixties.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Grinning Cat Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 31545
- Title
- Setting Free the Bears (signed)
- Author
- JOHN IRVING
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Hardcover. First Edition, Second Printing of Irving's first book. Author signature on laid in card. Fine ina near fine dustjack
- Jacket Condition
- Near Fine
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- Random House
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1968
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- AMERICAN LITERATURE
- Bookseller catalogs
- LITERATURE;
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Grinning Cat Books
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- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
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