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Poet and Dancer
by Jhabvala, Ruth Prawer
- Used
- Good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Good/Good
- ISBN 10
- 0385468695
- ISBN 13
- 9780385468695
- Seller
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La Porte, Texas, United States
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About This Item
New York, NY, U.S.A.: Doubleday, 1993. BD4 - A tight, clean, sound copy with minor overall shelf wear plus there is some tape staining on the outside board surfaces from where the dust jacket was taped to the boards plus there is a small patch (about 0.25"x0.5") of surface damage on the front outside board surface down by the bottom edge in about the middle from the tape used to tape the dust jacket to the boards plus there is some very light soiling on the outside paper edges plus the book is slightly shelf cocked plus there are the usual library stamps and label on the top outside paper edges, front endpaper, and title page. The dust shows minor overall shelf wear plus there is some very light fading along the spine plus there is a library label on the back plus it is still in the original library mylar sleeve. A book about a tender and intimate attachment between two young girls that, in adulthood, deepens into something complex and dangerous. The author is a winner of the Booker Prize and a winner of Academy Award for one of her screenplays written for the Merchant Ivory film team. By the author of "Heat and Dust," "Travelers," "A Backward Place," and "Esmond in India." 199p.. First American Edition. Hard Cover. Good/Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Ex-Library.
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- Seller
- Bookmarc's
(US)
- Seller's Inventory #
- SCW07671
- Title
- Poet and Dancer
- Author
- Jhabvala, Ruth Prawer
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Jacket Condition
- Good
- Edition
- First American Edition
- ISBN 10
- 0385468695
- ISBN 13
- 9780385468695
- Publisher
- Doubleday
- Place of Publication
- New York, NY, U.S.A.
- Date Published
- 1993
- Keywords
- Literature Literary Fiction New York State
- Bookseller catalogs
- Fiction / Modern Fiction Firsts;
- Size
- 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall
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- Cocked
- Refers to a state where the spine of a book is lightly "twisted" in such a way that the front and rear boards of a book do not...
- Shelf Wear
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- Jacket
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