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A Cure for Dreams.
by GIBBONS, Kaye
- Used
- as new
- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- As New/Fine
- ISBN 10
- 0945575335
- ISBN 13
- 9780945575337
- Seller
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Edmonds, Washington, United States
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About This Item
Chapel Hill: Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill, 1991. Signed by Kaye Gibbons on the title page. First edition / First printing. Brown cloth spine, beige paper-covered boards. Very fine in very fine dust jacket.
Synopsis
Kaye Gibbons was born in Nash County, North Carolina, and attended North Carolina State University and the University of North Carolina at Chapel HIll. Her first novel, Ellen Foster , was awarded the Sue Kaufman Prize of the American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters and a special citation from the Ernest Hemingway Foundation. Gibbons was awarded the PEN/Revson fellowship for A Cure for Dreams , and has been the recipient of a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship. She is also the author of the novel A Virtuous Woman . A writer-in-residence at the LIbrary of North Carolina State University, she lives with her three daughters in Raleigh.
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- Bookseller
- Orpheus Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 12924-3
- Title
- A Cure for Dreams.
- Author
- GIBBONS, Kaye
- Format/Binding
- Brown cloth spine, beige paper-covered boards.
- Book Condition
- New
- Jacket Condition
- Fine
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First edition / First printing.
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 0945575335
- ISBN 13
- 9780945575337
- Publisher
- Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill,
- Place of Publication
- Chapel Hill:
- Date Published
- 1991.
- Pages
- 171 pages.
- Bookseller catalogs
- Fiction;
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About the Seller
Orpheus Books
Biblio member since 2004
Edmonds, Washington
About Orpheus Books
We specialize exclusively in First Edition/First Printing books. Our best books are rated very fine and we are most conservative in our grading. We take pride in maintaining a significant selection of fine books. Your trust is of great importance to us and everything we sell is guaranteed. Archival dust jacket covers are provided with all hardcover books.
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