SWIMMING LESSONS and Other Stories from Firozsha Baag
by Mistry, Rohinton
- Used
- Fine
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Fine/Fine
- ISBN 10
- 0395498627
- ISBN 13
- 9780395498620
- Seller
-
Covina, California, United States
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1989. First edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. First American edition, first state. The author's first book. An Indian-born Canadian writer, Mistry (b.1952) is a Neustadt International Prize for Literature laureate (2012). Octavo. A fine copy in a fine dust jacket.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Johnson Rare Books & Archives (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 60210
- Title
- SWIMMING LESSONS and Other Stories from Firozsha Baag
- Author
- Mistry, Rohinton
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Fine
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First edition
- ISBN 10
- 0395498627
- ISBN 13
- 9780395498620
- Publisher
- Houghton Mifflin Company
- Place of Publication
- Boston
- Date Published
- 1989
- Keywords
- Literature
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
Johnson Rare Books & Archives
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Covina, California
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Glossary
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- First Edition
- In book collecting, the first edition is the earliest published form of a book. A book may have more than one first edition in...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Octavo
- Another of the terms referring to page or book size, octavo refers to a standard printer's sheet folded four times, producing...
- Fine
- A book in fine condition exhibits no flaws. A fine condition book closely approaches As New condition, but may lack the...
- First State
- used in book collecting to refer to a book from the earliest run of a first edition, generally distinguished by a change in some...