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The Courts of Love: Stories
by Gilchrist, Ellen
- Used
- Fine
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Fine/Very Good
- ISBN 10
- 0316314781
- ISBN 13
- 9780316314787
- Seller
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Newport, Washington, United States
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About This Item
U.S.A: Little Brown & Co, 1996. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Very Good. 8vo - over 7. Type: Hardback Type: Hard Back Winner of the National Book Award. First Printing. Hardcover Book in Fine Condition with a Near Fine Dust Jacket. Handsome binding of green cloth with yellow titles on spine, clean and unmarked, tight & solid, square with sharp corners. Page block edges clean and white, no spotting. Text body fresh and clean, as new. A series of stories about Nora Jane Whittington, who, as a youth, was a runaway hippie, and her up and down life, followed by a series of nine stories entitled "Past", which explore the hazards of recapturing and reviving old affairs. 288 pages. 9.5 x 6.5 inches. Little Brown and Co., Boston, MA, 1996.
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- Bookseller
- The Parnassus BookShop
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 013596
- Title
- The Courts of Love: Stories
- Author
- Gilchrist, Ellen
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- ISBN 10
- 0316314781
- ISBN 13
- 9780316314787
- Publisher
- Little Brown & Co
- Place of Publication
- U.S.A
- Date Published
- 1996
- Size
- 8vo - over 7
- Keywords
- AMERICAN LITERATURE;
- Bookseller catalogs
- Literature;
- X weight
- 0 oz
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