Setting Free the Bears.
by Irving, John
- Used
- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
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Palm Beach, Florida, United States
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Synopsis
This is about the novel; for the organization, see Free the Bears Fund. Setting Free the Bears is the first novel by American author John Irving, published in 1968 by Random House. Irving studied at the Institute of European Studies in Vienna in 1963 and Bears was written between 1965 and 1967 based largely on Irving’s understanding of the city and its rebellious youth of the sixties.
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- Bookseller
- Raptis Rare Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 144314
- Title
- Setting Free the Bears.
- Author
- Irving, John
- Book Condition
- Used
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Random House
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1968
- Keywords
- john irving first edition, setting free the bears first edition
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