SWIMMING LESSONS and Other Stories from Firozsha Baag.
by Mistry, Rohinton
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Fine in fine dust jacket./fine
- ISBN 10
- 0395498627
- ISBN 13
- 9780395498620
- Seller
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Ione, California, United States
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About This Item
Boston:: Houghton Mifflin,, 1989.. Hardcover first edition -. Fine in fine dust jacket.. First US printing and first hardcover edition. First book, a highly praised collection of short stories, by this Canadian writer who was born in Bombay - these interconnected stories about the lives of several characters who live in a Bombay apartment block capture the crowded, throbbing life of urban India. Originally published as a trade paperback in Canada.
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- Bookseller
- Bookfever.com, IOBA (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 29971
- Title
- SWIMMING LESSONS and Other Stories from Firozsha Baag.
- Author
- Mistry, Rohinton
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover first edition -
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine in fine dust jacket.
- Jacket Condition
- fine
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 0395498627
- ISBN 13
- 9780395498620
- Publisher
- Houghton Mifflin,
- Place of Publication
- Boston:
- Date Published
- 1989.
- Keywords
- bombay,
- Bookseller catalogs
- First book or first novel;
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