The Bridge on the Drina
by Andric, Ivo
- Used
- Near Fine
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Near Fine/Very Good
- Seller
-
Woodstock, Illinois, United States
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
New York: Macmillan Company, 1959. First Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. Translated by Lovett F. Edwards. Near Fine in a Very Good jacket, clipped, rubbed and with some creases at the edges, toned and with some soiling particularly on the back panel. Black buckram, faded at the head, with gilt lettering on the spine. Square and firmly bound, foxed at the top edge, gift inscription inside the front board, clean otherwise. Andric's historical novel about the Mehmed Pasa Sokolvic Bridge in Visegrad, one of the main works responsible for Andric's winning the Nobel Prize.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Carpetbagger Books, IOBA (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 6544
- Title
- The Bridge on the Drina
- Author
- Andric, Ivo
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Near Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- Macmillan Company
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1959
- Keywords
- Historical Fiction, 20th Century Literature, European Literature, Slavic Literature, Serbian Literature, Ottoman Empire, WWI, WWII
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
Carpetbagger Books, IOBA
Biblio member since 2018
Woodstock, Illinois
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- First Edition
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- Spine
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- Buckram
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- Foxed
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- Gilt
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- Jacket
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- Edges
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- Fine
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