The Drifters: A Novel [Signed by the Author]
by Michener, James A
- Used
- Near Fine
- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- Near Fine/No Jacket
- ISBN 10
- 0394470206
- ISBN 13
- 9780394470207
- Seller
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Ann Arbor, Michigan, United States
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About This Item
New York: Random House, 1971 Book. Near Fine. Hardcover. Signed by Author(s). Limited/Numbered First Edition. Large Octavo. Large 8vo. (12), 751 (5) pp. Limited First Edition, 1971. Of this first edition 500 copies have been specially bound. Each copy is signed by the author and numbered. This is No. 117. Only the faintest wear with equally faint age-toned bottom and fore- text block, else, Pristine, no wear. No markings, binding tight, clean, white and bright. 6" x 8.75". Brown cloth with copper lettering to front board, black title plate with gilt and glossy magenta lettering to spine, blue top text block edge, and map on endpapers. In clear plastic protector..
Synopsis
James A. Michener was one of the world’s most popular writers, the author of more than forty books of fiction and nonfiction, including the Pulitzer Prize–winning Tales of the South Pacific, the bestselling novels The Source, Hawaii, Alaska, Chesapeake, Centennial, Texas, Caribbean, and Caravans, and the memoir The World Is My Home . Michener served on the advisory council to NASA and the International Broadcast Board, which oversees the Voice of America. Among dozens of awards and honors, he received America’s highest civilian award, the Presidential Medal of Freedom, in 1977, and an award from the President’s Committee on the Arts and Humanities in 1983 for his commitment to art in America. Michener died in 1997 at the age of ninety.
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Details
- Bookseller
- West Side Book Shop, ABAA
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 006312
- Title
- The Drifters: A Novel [Signed by the Author]
- Author
- Michener, James A
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Near Fine
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket
- Edition
- Limited/Numbered First Edition
- ISBN 10
- 0394470206
- ISBN 13
- 9780394470207
- Publisher
- Random House
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1971
- Keywords
- LITERATURE MODERN AMERICAN WRITERS FICTION NOVEL
- Bookseller catalogs
- LITERATURE;
- Size
- Large Octavo
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