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IRONWEED
by Kennedy, William
- Used
- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- Very Good +/Near Fine
- ISBN 10
- 0670401765
- ISBN 13
- 9780670401765
- Seller
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Naas, Kildare, Ireland
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About This Item
New York. USA: The Viking Press, 1983. Book. Very Good +. Hardcover. Signed by Author(s). 1st Edition. First American Edition, First Printing. Octavo. Pp. 227. First printing (first impression) A very good plus copy of this Pulitzer Prize winning novel, with some spotting to the edge of the text block, tight binding, sharp boards, clean pages. The original first state jacket is not price clipped ( $14.95 ).Signed by the author William Kennedy to the title page. Also a laid in signed letter on headed paper from the author to the previous owner of the book..
Synopsis
The third novel in William Kennedy’s Albany Cycle series, Ironweed (1983) is set during the Great Depression. It follows Francis Phelan, a drifter from Albany, New York. After a devastating accident where he killed his child, he becomes a wandering alcoholic, but at the beginning of the novel has returned home. Detailing Francis’s life following his homecoming, Ironwood tells the tragic tale of a man haunted by his past. The striking novel won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1984 and was adapted into a film in 1987.
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- Bookseller
- Kelleher Rare Books
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 016785
- Title
- IRONWEED
- Author
- Kennedy, William
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good +
- Jacket Condition
- Near Fine
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- ISBN 10
- 0670401765
- ISBN 13
- 9780670401765
- Publisher
- The Viking Press
- Place of Publication
- New York. USA
- Date Published
- 1983
- Keywords
- IRINWEED, FIRST EDITION, Signed, William Kennedy
- Bookseller catalogs
- Fiction;
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- Price Clipped
- When a book is described as price-clipped, it indicates that the portion of the dust jacket flap that has the publisher's...
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Text Block
- Most simply the inside pages of a book. More precisely, the block of paper formed by the cut and stacked pages of a book....
- Octavo
- Another of the terms referring to page or book size, octavo refers to a standard printer's sheet folded four times, producing...
- Title Page
- A page at the front of a book which may contain the title of the book, any subtitles, the authors, contributors, editors, the...
- First State
- used in book collecting to refer to a book from the earliest run of a first edition, generally distinguished by a change in some...
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