The General's Wife
by Straub, Peter
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- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
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- ISBN 10
- 0937986542
- ISBN 13
- 9780937986547
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About This Item
The General's Wife, Straub, Peter. Published by Donald M. Grant Publisher Inc, West Kingston, 1982. First Edition; First Printing. Limited edition of 1200 numbered copies, this being copy no. 256. Signed by both the author Peter Straub and by the artist Thomas Canty to limitation page. 8vo up to 9½" tall., 128pp., illustrated. Textured green leatherette with gilt titles front and spine, gilt ruled borders and decorative ivy pattern to front, board and spine, green endpapers with ivy pattern; decorative green ivy borders and headers to pages. In mint condition.
Excerpted from the first draft of Floating Dragon and rewritten by Straub as a novella of horror and mystery. The novella is 99 pages, preceded by a 29-page commentary by Straub on the writing process and his tribute to Carlos Fuentes for inspiration.
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- Bookseller
- Back Lane Books (Member of IOBA) (CA)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 4437
- Title
- The General's Wife
- Author
- Straub, Peter
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 0937986542
- ISBN 13
- 9780937986547
- Publisher
- Donald M Grant
- Place of Publication
- [west Kingston]
- This edition first published
- 1982
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