FARTHING'S FORTUNES.
by Wright, Richard B
- Used
- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- Fine in near fine dust jacket./near fine
- ISBN 10
- 0770514332
- ISBN 13
- 9780770514334
- Seller
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About This Item
Toronto:: Macmillan of Canada,, (1976). SIGNED hardcover first edition -. Fine in near fine dust jacket.. First printing. The author's third novel, one which "sees our hero (seduced at 15 by his amorous guardian) fleeing rural Canada to set forth on a lifelong journey of adventure - a search which takes him to the bustling, immigrant-filled New York City of the 1890s; to the Klondike Gold Rush; to Europe, where he runs into the "war to end all wars"; and to the rail yards and hobo jungles of the Great Depression. . . a picaresque tale that is a triumph of the comic imagination." SIGNED on the title page. 333 pp.
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- Bookseller
- Bookfever.com, IOBA (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 61126
- Title
- FARTHING'S FORTUNES.
- Author
- Wright, Richard B
- Format/Binding
- SIGNED hardcover first edition -
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine in near fine dust jacket.
- Jacket Condition
- near fine
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 0770514332
- ISBN 13
- 9780770514334
- Publisher
- Macmillan of Canada,
- Place of Publication
- Toronto:
- Date Published
- (1976)
- Keywords
- canada, picaresque, world war i, great depression,
- Bookseller catalogs
- Historical Fiction;
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