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Housekeeping.
by ROBINSON, Marilynne
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/Very Good
- ISBN 10
- 0374173133
- ISBN 13
- 9780374173135
- Seller
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Edmonds, Washington, United States
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1980. First edition / First Printing. Blue cloth spine, light slate blue paper-covered boards. Very good, with fading to the top and bottom of the boards, in very good dust jacket. The Author's first book. Winner of the 1982 Pen / Hemingway Award for the Best First Book. A finalist for the 1982 Pulitzer Prize. The Guardian named Housekeeping as one of the 100 best novels of all time in 2003. Basis for the 1987 Bill Forsyth film. Robinson's second novel Gilead was Winner of the 2005 Pulitzer Prize and the 2005 National Book Critics Circle Award. It was elected by the editors of The New York Times Book Review for their 10 Best Books of 2004 List, and was Number 2 on the 2019 Guardian List of the 100 best Books of the 21st Century.
Synopsis
Originally published: New York : Farrar Straus Giroux, 1980.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Orpheus Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 18790
- Title
- Housekeeping.
- Author
- ROBINSON, Marilynne
- Format/Binding
- Blue cloth spine, light slate blue paper-covered boards.
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First edition / First Printing.
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 0374173133
- ISBN 13
- 9780374173135
- Publisher
- Farrar, Straus & Giroux,
- Place of Publication
- New York:
- Date Published
- 1980.
- Pages
- 219 pages.
- Bookseller catalogs
- Fiction; Western Americana;
Terms of Sale
Orpheus Books
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About the Seller
Orpheus Books
Biblio member since 2004
Edmonds, Washington
About Orpheus Books
We specialize exclusively in First Edition/First Printing books. Our best books are rated very fine and we are most conservative in our grading. We take pride in maintaining a significant selection of fine books. Your trust is of great importance to us and everything we sell is guaranteed. Archival dust jacket covers are provided with all hardcover books.
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