The Wild Things
by Dave Eggers
- Used
- Fine
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Fine
- ISBN 10
- 1934781630
- ISBN 13
- 9781934781630
- Seller
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About This Item
Front and back board, along with spine, covered in fur with cutout for eyes on front board. Book is in Fine condition with tight binding and pages still look in excellent condition.
McSweeney's First Edition; First Printing as indicated by "First Printing" on copyright page.
Eggers' own take on both the favorite childhood story "Where the Wild Things Are" by Maurice Sendak and Spike Jonze's screenplay "Where the Wild things Are". Hardcover, but issued with no dust jacket.
Synopsis
DAVE EGGERS is the author of seven books, including A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius , You Shall Know Our Velocity! , How We Are Hungry , What Is the What and The Wild Things as well as co-writer of the film Away We Go , starring Jon Krasinski and Maya Rudolph. He is the editor of McSweeney's , a quarterly magazine and book-publishing company, and is cofounder of 826 Valencia, a network of nonprofit writing and tutoring centers for young people. His interest in oral history led to his 2004 cofounding of Voice of Witness , a nonprofit series of books that use oral history to illuminate human rights crises around the world. As a journalist, his work has appeared in The New Yorker , Esquire and The Believer .
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- Bookseller
- Sherlock Joe's Book Hunting (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- EGGRS001
- Title
- The Wild Things
- Author
- Dave Eggers
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 1934781630
- ISBN 13
- 9781934781630
- Publisher
- Mcsweeney's
- Place of Publication
- San Francisco
- Date Published
- 2009-07
- Pages
- 288
- Keywords
- dave eggers; wild things; fur cover
- Bookseller catalogs
- Fiction;
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