The Mosquito Coast
by Theroux, Paul
- Used
- Fine
- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- Fine/Fine
- ISBN 10
- 0395318378
- ISBN 13
- 9780395318379
- Seller
-
Rockville, Maryland, United States
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About This Item
Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1982. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. 1982 Houghton Mifflin First/First **SIGNED & INSCRIBED** on ffep & in F/F condition. The basis of 1986 Harrison Ford movie with Helen Mirren and River Phoenix, directed by Peter Weir with the screenplay written by Paul Shrader. Now a seven-part movie on Apple TV+, starring nephew Justin Theroux. BONUS: Theroux's1968 second novel "Fong and the Indians." An ex-library first edition in fine condition (without a dust jacket).
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
- Bren-Books.com (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 008989
- Title
- The Mosquito Coast
- Author
- Theroux, Paul
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Fine
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 1st Edition 1st Printing
- ISBN 10
- 0395318378
- ISBN 13
- 9780395318379
- Publisher
- Houghton Mifflin
- Place of Publication
- Boston
- Date Published
- 1982
- Pages
- 374
- Keywords
- Book into Film, Fiction
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- First Edition
- In book collecting, the first edition is the earliest published form of a book. A book may have more than one first edition in...
- Fine
- A book in fine condition exhibits no flaws. A fine condition book closely approaches As New condition, but may lack the...
- FFEP
- A common abbreviation for Front Free End Paper. Generally, it is the first page of a book and is part of a single sheet that...