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Engine Summer
by John Crowley
- Used
- Fine
- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- Fine/Fine
- ISBN 10
- 0385128312
- ISBN 13
- 9780385128315
- Seller
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Rock Island, Illinois, United States
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About This Item
Signed. First Edition. First Printing. Doubleday (1979). Fine hardcover with fine, as new, jacket in new, removable Brodart sleeve. Signed (signature only) by John Crowley on title page. Top and bottom edges of spine very lightly pushed, not affecting fine jacket. A sharp little copy. NOT a remainder. Boxed for swift, safe shipping. 3-b
Synopsis
Engine Summer is a novel by John Crowley, published in 1979 by Doubleday. It was nominated for the 1980 American Book Award, as well as both the British Fantasy and John W. Campbell Awards the same year.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Widdershin's Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 13
- Title
- Engine Summer
- Author
- John Crowley
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Fine
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition. First Printing
- ISBN 10
- 0385128312
- ISBN 13
- 9780385128315
- Publisher
- Doubleday
- Place of Publication
- Garden City
- Date Published
- 1979
- Bookseller catalogs
- Science Fiction;
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
Widdershin's Books
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Rock Island, Illinois
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- First Edition
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- Fine
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- Edges
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- Title Page
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- Jacket
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- Spine
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- New
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