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The Last Resort: A Novel
by LURIE, Alison
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Fine in Fine dust jacket
- ISBN 10
- 0805058664
- ISBN 13
- 9780805058666
- Seller
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Littleton, Colorado, United States
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About This Item
New York: Henry Holt & Co. Fine in Fine dust jacket. 1998. First Edition. Hardcover. 0805058664 . A first edition of Alison Lurie's novel, featuring her Wilkie Walker character, a successful writer and naturalist and his much younger wife Jill as they vacation in Key West. Walker is fighting depression, and Jill is trying to cope. Ms. Lurie won the 1985 Pulitzer Prize for fiction for her "Foreign Affairs". --- In blue paper-covered boards with titling in gilt to spine. Copyright page with full number line. Jacket with photo of "bridge to nowhere" on cover. --- A clean, tightly-bound, bright copy lacking apparent damages; in similar, undamaged jacket which is protected in clear removable mylar wrapper.; 12mo (7 to 7-1/2 in. tall); (10), 321 pages .
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Details
- Bookseller
- Bluebird Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 60445
- Title
- The Last Resort: A Novel
- Author
- LURIE, Alison
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine in Fine dust jacket
- Edition
- First Edition
- ISBN 10
- 0805058664
- ISBN 13
- 9780805058666
- Publisher
- Henry Holt & Co
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1998
- Keywords
- 0805058664
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About the Seller
Bluebird Books
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Littleton, Colorado
About Bluebird Books
Bluebird Books is the bookselling business of Eric Mayer, operating from my base in Littleton, Colorado. I specialize in classic fiction and literature, books on birds and natural history, railroadiana, biography, history and many other genres. Bluebird Books features publications by the Modern Library and Everyman's Library. I offer free shipping on books shipped within the US via USPS Media Mail. INTERNATIONAL ORDERS: I recommend that you use Biblio.com for your international orders because they have formed a partnership with Asendia to allow for much more affordable shipping on parcels weighing under 5 lb. (about 2.26 kg).
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- Spine
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- First Edition
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- Gilt
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- Number Line
- A series of numbers appearing on the copyright page of a book, where the lowest number generally indicates the printing of that...
- 12mo
- A duodecimo is a book approximately 7 by 4.5 inches in size, or similar in size to a contemporary mass market paperback. Also...
- Fine
- A book in fine condition exhibits no flaws. A fine condition book closely approaches As New condition, but may lack the...
- Copyright page
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