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Of Love and Shadows.
by ALLENDE, Isabel. Translated by Margaret Sayers Peden
- Used
- as new
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- As New/Fine
- ISBN 10
- 0394549627
- ISBN 13
- 9780394549620
- Seller
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Edmonds, Washington, United States
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About This Item
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1987. First U.S. edition / First printing. Maroon cloth spine, burnt orange paper-covered boards. Very fine in very fine dust jacket. Promotional postcard laid in. A lovely copy of Allende's second novel.
Synopsis
Born in Peru, Isabel Allende is Chilean. She was a journalist for many years and began to write fiction in 1981. The result was the worldwide bestseller The House of the Spirits, which was followed two years later by the equally successful Of Love and Shadows . Long a resident of Caracas, she now makes her home in San Rafael, California, where she is completing a new book. From the Trade Paperback edition.
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- Bookseller
- Orpheus Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 13077-2
- Title
- Of Love and Shadows.
- Author
- ALLENDE, Isabel. Translated by Margaret Sayers Peden
- Format/Binding
- Maroon cloth spine, burnt orange paper-covered boards.
- Book Condition
- New As New
- Jacket Condition
- Fine
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First U.S. edition / First printing.
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 0394549627
- ISBN 13
- 9780394549620
- Publisher
- Alfred A. Knopf,
- Place of Publication
- New York:
- Date Published
- 1987.
- Bookseller catalogs
- Fiction;
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Orpheus Books
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Edmonds, Washington
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