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Smilla's Sense of Snow
by Hoeg, Peter
- Used
- Near Fine
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Near Fine/Fine
- ISBN 10
- 0385254423
- ISBN 13
- 9780385254427
- Seller
-
Salem, Oregon, United States
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About This Item
First Edition. First Canadian Printing of the author's second novel. Black cloth over blue boards with silver lettering on spine and map-illustrated end papers. Near Fine in a Fine unclipped dustjacket, protected in mylar. Books shows no flaws, just lacks the crispness for a grading of Fine. Translated from the Danish by Tiina Nunnally. Basis for the 1997 mystery / thriller film starring Julia Ormond, Gabriel Byrne, and Richard Harris. Carefully packaged and shipped in a box.
Synopsis
Peter Høeg is an internationally renowned Danish author who entered the North American literary scene with Smilla's Sense of Snow . Since its publication, Høeg's new works, such as The Woman and the Ape - have appeared in English translations alongside older works such as Tales of the Night . Once a sailor, and currently an actor and dancer as well as a writer, Høeg lives in Copenhagen.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Linden Avenue Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 10210
- Title
- Smilla's Sense of Snow
- Author
- Hoeg, Peter
- Illustrator
- Honi Werner, jacket design
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Near Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Fine
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- ISBN 10
- 0385254423
- ISBN 13
- 9780385254427
- Publisher
- Doubleday
- Place of Publication
- Canada
- Date Published
- 1993
- Pages
- 453
- Keywords
- First edition, fiction, Books into Film
- Bookseller catalogs
- Fiction; Mystery; Books into Film; Modern First Editions;
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Linden Avenue Books
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