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LAND OF HUNCHBACKS.
by Shaw, Marian
- Used
- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- INSCRIBED by the author on the title page and dated in 1989. Very good in near fine dust jacket (front hinge cracked.)/1989. Very good in near fine
- ISBN 10
- 2920862154
- ISBN 13
- 9782920862159
- Seller
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Ione, California, United States
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About This Item
Quebec:: Cidihca,, 1988.. SIGNED hardcover first edition -. INSCRIBED by the author on the title page and dated in 1989. Very good in near fine dust jacket (front hinge cracked.). First printing. Her first novel, a story of a summer in Haiti in the 1950's, weaves together Haitian folktales, proverbs, song and history. Striking dustjacket painting by Wilson Bigaud.
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- Bookseller
- Bookfever.com, IOBA (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 25314
- Title
- LAND OF HUNCHBACKS.
- Author
- Shaw, Marian
- Format/Binding
- SIGNED hardcover first edition -
- Book Condition
- Used - INSCRIBED by the author on the title page and dated in 1989. Very good in near fine dust jacket (front hinge cracked.)
- Jacket Condition
- 1989. Very good in near fine
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 2920862154
- ISBN 13
- 9782920862159
- Publisher
- Cidihca,
- Place of Publication
- Quebec:
- Date Published
- 1988.
- Keywords
- haiti,
- Bookseller catalogs
- Signed books;
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- Hinge
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- Cracked
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