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Thanksgiving (SIGNED 1st Edition Copy)
by Dibdin, Michael
- Used
- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- As New in As New dust jacket
- ISBN 10
- 0571204848
- ISBN 13
- 9780571204847
- Seller
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Carmarthen, United Kingdom
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About This Item
London: Faber and Faber. As New in As New dust jacket. 2000. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. SIGNED and Dated by the AUTHOR on the title page in black pen. Bought NEW and never read, kept safely stored. In black cloth boards with silver-gilt titling to the spine. Sharp cornered, fine and very clean. In the original publisher's pictorial dustjacket. The d/j is now in a new protective clear - removable - bookfilm plastic cover. The d/j is NOT price clipped, showing the original price of £12.99. FIRST EDITION, FIRST Printing with the Correct Printers Key - 2 4 6 8 10 9 7 5 3 1. This is an UNREAD, Unused, FINE/AS NEW Copy of this book in a similar fine dustjacket. Page fore-edges uniform and very clean - and all hinges tight. All else is Excellent. (8) + 179 pp + (5 blanks) . This copy has been Flat SIGNED and DATED (2. X. 00) by the AUTHOR on the Title Page. NO other Inscriptions or Marks. A Lovely Clean, Fine/Fine, Unread As NEW copy. ISBN: 0571204848. "Anthony is a British journalist whose American wife, Lucy, has died suddenly. Haunted by her death, he becomes obsessed with her past and the years he missed before he met her. To find out more, he travels to a remote part of the Nevada desert to meet Lucy's first husband. Their encounter is the beginning of a journey that takes him across the world, to the edge of madness, and into the corners of the human heart..." . See Images. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; Signed by Author .
Synopsis
Michael Dibdin was born in England and raised in Northern Ireland. He attended Sussex University and the University of Alberta in Canada. He spent five years in Perugia, Italy, where he taught English at the local university. He went on to live in Oxford, England and Seattle, Washington. He was the author of eighteen novels, eleven of them in the popular Aurelio Zen series, including Ratking , which won the Crime Writers’ Association Gold Dagger, and Cabal , which was awarded the French Grand Prix du Roman Policier. His work has been translated into eighteen languages. He died in 2007.
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- Bookseller
- Sue Lloyd-Davies Books
(GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 119738
- Title
- Thanksgiving (SIGNED 1st Edition Copy)
- Author
- Dibdin, Michael
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- New
- Edition
- First Edition; First Printing
- ISBN 10
- 0571204848
- ISBN 13
- 9780571204847
- Publisher
- Faber and Faber
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 2000
- Keywords
- Thanksgiving By Michael Dibdin, SIGNED 1st Edition, Anthony Is A British Journalist Whose American Wife, Lucy, Has Died , Suddenly. Haunted By Her Death, He Becomes Obsessed With Her Past And The , Years He Missed Before He Met Her. To Find Out More..., H
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About the Seller
Sue Lloyd-Davies Books
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Carmarthen
About Sue Lloyd-Davies Books
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