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The Mosquito Coast
by Theroux, Paul
- Used
- near fine
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Near Fine/Fine
- ISBN 10
- 0395318378
- ISBN 13
- 9780395318379
- Seller
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Stanley, New York, United States
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About This Item
Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1982. Book. Near Fine. Hardcover. 1st Edition. First Trade Edition, first printing with complete number line in very clean unworn jacket. Blue-gray boards with yellow-orange cloth spine, black pelican on cover, black lettering on spine. No bumping, fading or wear. Binding is tight and square, hinges are sound. All pages and edges are clean (blind-stamped circular ownership embossment on lower right corner of title page is only sign of previous ownership). Woodcuts by David Frampton. 374 pages. Clean bright dust jacket is not price clipped (13.95 on front inside flap), unchipped, no tears; enclosed in new archival quality removable mylar cover..
Synopsis
In a breathtaking adventure story, the paranoid and brilliant inventor Allie Fox takes his family to live in the Honduran jungle, determined to build a civilization better than the one they've left. Fleeing from an America he sees as mired in materialism and conformity, he hopes to rediscover a purer life. But his utopian experiment takes a dark turn when his obsessions lead the family toward unimaginable danger.
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- Bookseller
- Old Scrolls Book Shop - Biblio
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 033190
- Title
- The Mosquito Coast
- Author
- Theroux, Paul
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Near Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Fine
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- ISBN 10
- 0395318378
- ISBN 13
- 9780395318379
- Publisher
- Houghton Mifflin
- Place of Publication
- Boston
- Date Published
- 1982
- Keywords
- ADVENTURE NOVEL, FIRST EDITION, CENTRAL AMERICA, PAUL THEROUX
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- Cloth
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- Spine
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- Title Page
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- Jacket
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- Fine
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