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Winter's Tale
by Helprin, Mark
- Used
- Very Good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/Fine
- ISBN 10
- 0151972036
- ISBN 13
- 9780151972036
- Seller
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Los Angeles, California, United States
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About This Item
San Diego, CA: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1983. First Edition . Cloth. Very Good/Fine. 8vo. 673 pp. First edition, first printing (ABCDE) Book has foxing on edges. Embossed blind stamp on ffep. DJ is price clipped with a crease on edge and creases at top and bottom of spine.
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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- Bookseller
- modern-ISM
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 011720
- Title
- Winter's Tale
- Author
- Helprin, Mark
- Format/Binding
- Cloth
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Fine
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 0151972036
- ISBN 13
- 9780151972036
- Publisher
- Harcourt Brace Jovanovich
- Place of Publication
- San Diego, CA
- Date Published
- 1983
- Size
- 8vo
- Keywords
- IRISH AMERICANS FICTION NEW YORK Mark Helprin
- Bookseller catalogs
- Modern Firsts;
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- Edges
- The collective of the top, fore and bottom edges of the text block of the book, being that part of the edges of the pages of a...
- Price Clipped
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- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- FFEP
- A common abbreviation for Front Free End Paper. Generally, it is the first page of a book and is part of a single sheet that...
- 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...
- Spine
- The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....
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