Face Value
by Bloch, Don
- Used
- Good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Good/Good
- ISBN 10
- 0941533670
- ISBN 13
- 9780941533676
- Seller
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La Porte, Texas, United States
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About This Item
Chicago, Illinois, USA: Ivan R. Dee Publisher, 1989. CE5 - A tight, clean, sound copy with very minor overall shelf wear plus there are the usual library stamps on the top and bottom outside paper edges, title page, and back endpaper plus the dust jacket endflaps are glued down to the inside surfaces of the boards. The dust jacket shows very minor overall shelf wear plus it is still in the original library mylar sleeve plus there is the usual library label on the spine plus the endflaps are glued down to the inside surfaces of the boards. The main character is a successful plastic surgeon who leaves his family to live alone in a run-down block of houses in Boston's North End. His life is transformed by his relations with the people he meets in this unpromising setting and is forced to declare himself in his actions. By the author of "Arising," "Little Friends," "Double Take," "The Modern Common Wind," and "Passing Through." 346p.. First American Edition. Hard Cover. Good/Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Ex-Library.
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- Seller
- Bookmarc's
(US)
- Seller's Inventory #
- SCW04109
- Title
- Face Value
- Author
- Bloch, Don
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Jacket Condition
- Good
- Edition
- First American Edition
- ISBN 10
- 0941533670
- ISBN 13
- 9780941533676
- Publisher
- Ivan R. Dee Publisher
- Place of Publication
- Chicago, Illinois, USA
- Date Published
- 1989
- Keywords
- Literature Literary Fiction Boston Massachusetts Boston North End Plastic Surgeon Moralty Values Self Worth
- Bookseller catalogs
- Fiction / Modern Fiction Firsts;
- Size
- 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall
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