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That Old Ace in the Hole
by Proulx, Annie
- Used
- Paperback
- first
- Condition
- Very Good Condition
- ISBN 10
- 0007154208
- ISBN 13
- 9780007154203
- Seller
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melbourne, Victoria, Australia
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About This Item
4th Estate, Sydney, 2002. First Edition. Softcover. Very Good Condition. Photographic paperback binding with black and white coloured titles to the front panel and back strip. A story of a man who finds himself at a loss after college and takes a job with a company manufacturing pork rind. His job? To locate big farms / ranches for the company to buy and turning two hog farms. He then arrives in a Texas town called Wollybucket in the Texas Panhandle which had seen its fair share of hardluck – tornadoes, dust storms and droughts – and targets a ranch to turn into a hog farm, but, " ... learns the hard way how vigourously the old owners will hold onto the land, even though their children want no part of it." – from rear panel blurb. A little creasing of the book corners with rubbing of the book edges and panels stop tanning of the text block edges and pages. The last page has a vertical creases. This is the first Australian edition. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. 384 pages. Please refer to accompanying picture (s). Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category: Literature & Literary; ISBN: 0007154208. ISBN/EAN: 9780007154203. Inventory No: 0252840. . 9780007154203
Synopsis
That Old Ace in the Hole is a 2002 novel by Annie Proulx.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Syber's Books ABN 40533682787
(AU)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 0252840
- Title
- That Old Ace in the Hole
- Author
- Proulx, Annie
- Format/Binding
- Softcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good Condition
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- Binding
- Paperback
- ISBN 10
- 0007154208
- ISBN 13
- 9780007154203
- Publisher
- 4th Estate
- Place of Publication
- Sydney
- Date Published
- 2002
- Keywords
- BZDB2 Literature, Hog farming, family ranches, a place called home Literature & Literary; Unbranded ISBN: 0007154208 EAN: 9780007154203 Proulx, Annie That Old Ace in the Hole
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
Syber's Books ABN 40533682787
Biblio member since 2005
melbourne, Victoria
About Syber's Books ABN 40533682787
General secondhand dealers, with 3 cats.We have two shops, 227 Glenferrie Rd Malvern 3144, Victoria 03 9530 2222 ( open 7 days Midday 'til 5.30 PM)And the other at 666 Glen Huntly Road Caulfield South 03 9523 666 open 11:00 am - 5.00 pm-ish the other 6 days. We seem to specialize in non mainstream stuff but read and stock Science-fiction, fantasy, detective fiction, history, biography and true crime, war, natural history. cooking, children's books and try to avoid current text books.We probably have the largest collection of Science Fiction, Penguins and general crime in Victoria in an open shop ( David has 8 bookcases 900mm x 2200mm of sf and f) ( Penny has 8 bookcases 1200mm x 2400 of sf and f )On shelf each shop has 30,000 plus books and we list over 30000 books online
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