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Who Will Run The Frog Hospital? (SIGNED on Title Page)
by Moore, Lorrie
- New
- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- New/New
- ISBN 10
- 0679434828
- ISBN 13
- 9780679434825
- Seller
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Monkton, Maryland, United States
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About This Item
HARDBACK. SIGNED in Person at the Book Signing Event. WHO WILL RUN THE FROG HOSPITAL? by Lorrie Moore (1994). SIGNED by the author, Lorrie Moore, to the Full Title page. Brand New and Never owned. This is a First Edition, First Printing copy, as stated on the copyright page. The dust jacket is also Brand new. No tears, marks, creases, remainder marks, library markings, or black lines on the edges. Not inscribed to anyone. Not price clipped, NOT a Book Club Edition (BCE), or signed on a bookplate. True Collectible Quality. First Edition, First Printing, Hand SIGNED to full title page. No inscription; full signature only. From an event featuring Lorrie Moore and Julian Barnes in New York City on April 23, 2018. FREE: The complete eight-page program is included. The book will be carefully wrapped and mailed via USPS with free Delivery Confirmation. **** First printing of only 17,500 copies! Lorrie Moore is the Gertrude Conaway Vanderbilt Professor of English at Vanderbilt University. Her books of fiction are Self Help: Stories (1985); Anagrams (1986); Like Life: Stories (1990); Who Will Run the Frog Hospital? (1994); Birds of America: Stories (1998); The Collected Stories (2008), A Gate to the Stairs (2009), which was shortlisted for the PEN/Faulkner Award and the Orange Prize; and Bark: Stories (2014), which was a finalist for The Story Prize. See What Can Be Done: Essays, Criticism, and Commentary, her first nonfiction book, was published on April 3, 2018. She is the recipient of the Irish Times International Prize for Literature, a Lannan Foundation fellowship, as well as the PEN/Malamud Award and the Rea Award for her achievement in the short story. She is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters. ISBN: 978-0679-4348-25. BS12242.
Synopsis
Lorrie Moore is the author of the story collections Birds of America , Self-Help , and Like Life and the novels Who Will Run the Frog Hospital? and Anagrams . Her work has appeared in The New Yorker, The Best American Short Stories , and Prize Stories: The O. Henry Awards . She is a professor of English at the University of Wisconsin in Madison.
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- Bookseller
- Charm City Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- BS12191
- Title
- Who Will Run The Frog Hospital? (SIGNED on Title Page)
- Author
- Moore, Lorrie
- Format/Binding
- HARDCOVER w/ Dust Jacket Cover
- Book Condition
- New
- Jacket Condition
- New
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- FIRST EDITION, FIRST PRINTING
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 0679434828
- ISBN 13
- 9780679434825
- Publisher
- Alfred A. Knopf; 1st edition (September 27, 1994)
- Place of Publication
- UNITED STATES
- Date Published
- Sep 27, 1994
- Keywords
- GIRLS & WOMEN, CLASSICS, LITERARY, LITERATURE & FICTION
- Bookseller catalogs
- SIGNED BOOKS;
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Charm City Books
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About the Seller
Charm City Books
Biblio member since 2004
Monkton, Maryland
About Charm City Books
I sell mostly Modern First Editions. Most of my inventory is Hand Signed First Edition/First Printing Hardcovers. I also carry a collection of Brand New & Like New, Signed and Unsigned Franklin Library & Easton Press Books. I will accept offers on any book I have. If your offer is accepted, you are committed to buy. I will then reduce the price of the item ON THIS SITE so you can purchase the item or book on this site using their check-out...
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