Wheat That Springeth Green
by J F Powers
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/Very Good
- ISBN 10
- 0394496094
- ISBN 13
- 9780394496092
- Seller
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BROOKLYN, New York, United States
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About This Item
Aug 1988 hardcover stated 1st edition implicit 1st printing. Soil and slight edgewear on dj, price clipped, foxing, else text clean, binding tight.
Synopsis
J. F. Powers (1917-1999) was born in Jacksonville, Illinois, and studied at Northwestern University while holding a variety of jobs in Chicago and working on his writing. He published his first stories in The Catholic Worker and, as a pacifist, spent thirteen months in prison during World War II. Powers was the author of three collections of short stories and two novels— Morte D’Urban , which won the National Book Award, and Wheat That Springeth Green —all of which have been reissued by New York Review Books. He lived in Ireland and the United States and taught for many years at St John’s University in Collegeville, Minnesota. Katherine A. Powers is a long-time champion of the novels of Raymond Kennedy. She is a freelance book critic and writes a literary column for the Barnes and Noble Review. She is the editor of a forthcoming volume, Suitable Accommodations: The Letters of J. F. Powers, 1942 - 1963 . She lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
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- Bookseller
- Dave's Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 1269
- Title
- Wheat That Springeth Green
- Author
- J F Powers
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 0394496094
- ISBN 13
- 9780394496092
- Publisher
- Knopf
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1988
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- Price Clipped
- When a book is described as price-clipped, it indicates that the portion of the dust jacket flap that has the publisher's...
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.