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Annie John
by Kincaid, Jamaica
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/Near Fine
- ISBN 10
- 0374105219
- ISBN 13
- 9780374105211
- Seller
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Ann Arbor, Michigan, United States
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
New York: Farrar Straus Giroux, 1985. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. First Edition. Small Thin Octavo. 160 pp, stated First printing, 1985, 8 titled stories. previous owner's name inked on ffep, else Binding tight with slight forward lean, pages clean and unmarked. 5.75" x 8.4" red cloth backed & blue-gray papered boards, in unclipped illustrated DJ.
Synopsis
Annie John, a novel written by Jamaica Kincaid in 1985, details the growth of a girl in Antigua, an island in the Caribbean. It covers issues as diverse as mother-daughter relationships, lesbianism, racism, clinical depression, education, and the struggle between medicine based on "scientific fact" and that based on "native superstitious know-how".
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Details
- Bookseller
- West Side Book Shop, ABAA (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 007533
- Title
- Annie John
- Author
- Kincaid, Jamaica
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Near Fine
- Edition
- First Edition
- ISBN 10
- 0374105219
- ISBN 13
- 9780374105211
- Publisher
- Farrar Straus Giroux
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1985
- Keywords
- fiction - stories - USA female authors
- Bookseller catalogs
- LITERATURE;
- Size
- Small Thin Octavo
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
West Side Book Shop, ABAA
Biblio member since 2006
Ann Arbor, Michigan
About West Side Book Shop, ABAA
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Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- First Edition
- In book collecting, the first edition is the earliest published form of a book. A book may have more than one first edition in...
- Octavo
- Another of the terms referring to page or book size, octavo refers to a standard printer's sheet folded four times, producing...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- FFEP
- A common abbreviation for Front Free End Paper. Generally, it is the first page of a book and is part of a single sheet that...