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The First Love Stories
by Wolkstein, Diane
- Used
- Very Good
- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/Very Good
- ISBN 10
- 0060162201
- ISBN 13
- 9780060162207
- Seller
-
Staten Island, New York, United States
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About This Item
New York: Harpercollins, 1991. Hardcover in non price-clipped dust-jacket. 270pp. First edition, first printing with number line intact on copyright page. Inscribed and signed by author on front free endpaper --for Kerr, All good wishes, Diane 4-23-91. A retelling of ancient and medieval love stoies from Isis and Osiris to Tristan and Iseult. Also includes Inanna and Dumuzi [Summerian]; Shiva and Sati [Hindu]; The Song of Songs [Hebrew]; Psyche and Eros [Greco-Roman]; and Layla and Majnun [Arabic-Persian]. A clean, tightly bound, square book in a clean, complete dust-jacket. Very good in very good dust-jacket.. Signed by Author. First Edition. Cloth Spine Over Boards. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Great Expectations Rare Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 005373
- Title
- The First Love Stories
- Author
- Wolkstein, Diane
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Edition
- First Edition
- ISBN 10
- 0060162201
- ISBN 13
- 9780060162207
- Publisher
- Harpercollins
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1991
- Keywords
- Mythology, Literature
- Bookseller catalogs
- Classics;
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
Great Expectations Rare Books
Biblio member since 2005
Staten Island, New York
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