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Winter's Tale
by Helprin, Mark
- Used
- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- Near Fine-/Near Fine -
- ISBN 10
- 0151972036
- ISBN 13
- 9780151972036
- Seller
-
Los Angeles, California, United States
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About This Item
Orlando, Florida, U.S.A.: Harcourt Brace, 1983. First Edition . Hardcover. Near Fine-/Near Fine -. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. First edition, first printing (ABCDE) Signed and dated 25.VI.85 by author, owner's gift inscription on verso half title page, price clipped DJ, a few fox marks to fore edges and a two fox marks to cloth board edges. Tiny closed tear to top of back cover of slightly rubbed dust jacket. Slight wrinkling to spines of DJ. DJ in protective mylar cover. Close to a near fine copy. Nice collectible copy overall.
Synopsis
A bestseller that takes readers on a journey to New York of the Belle Epoque, where Peter Lake attempts to rob a Manhattan mansion only to find the daughter of the house at home. Thus begins the love between the middle-aged Irishman and Beverly Penn, a young girl who is dying. “This novel...is a gifted writer’s love affair with the language” (Newsday).
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Details
- Bookseller
- modern-ISM
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 011633
- Title
- Winter's Tale
- Author
- Helprin, Mark
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Near Fine-
- Jacket Condition
- Near Fine -
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- ISBN 10
- 0151972036
- ISBN 13
- 9780151972036
- Publisher
- Harcourt Brace
- Place of Publication
- Orlando, Florida, U.S.A.
- Date Published
- 1983
- Size
- 8vo - over 7¾" - 9&f
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- Fine
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- First Edition
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- Cloth
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- Verso
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