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The Water-Method Man
by IRVING, JOHN
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- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- First Edition, First Pritning (with number line 98765432 and 'First Edition' denoting of a Random House first printing). Fine in/Fine
- Seller
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About This Item
First Edition, First Printing. Fine in a near fine dustjacket with a single, small closed tear. Jacket design by Hal Seigal. Quarter blue cloth over yellow boards, with metallic blue spine lettering, bright and unmarred. A beautiful copy of Irving's second book. Written when the author was twenty-nine, the main character is a perpetual graduate student with a birth defect in his urinary tract--and a man on the threshold of committing himself to a second marriage that bears remarkable resemblance to his first. Octavo 8vo. 365 pages. "Three or four times as funny as most novels." (The New Yorker). A great copy.
Synopsis
The Water Method Man (1972) is the second novel written by American novelist John Irving (b. 1942).
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- Bookseller
- Grinning Cat Books
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 13863
- Title
- The Water-Method Man
- Author
- IRVING, JOHN
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - First Edition, First Pritning (with number line 98765432 and 'First Edition' denoting of a Random House first printing). Fine in
- Jacket Condition
- Fine
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- Random House
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1972
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- AMERICAN LITERATURE
- Bookseller catalogs
- LITERATURE;
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