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Machine Dreams - 1st Edition/1st Printing
by Phillips, Jayne Anne
- Used
- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- Fine in Very Good+ dust jacket
- ISBN 10
- 052524252X
- ISBN 13
- 9780525242529
- Seller
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Summerville, South Carolina, United States
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About This Item
New York: E. P. Dutton/Seymour Lawrence. Fine in Very Good+ dust jacket. 1984. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. 052524252x . A Fine first printing of the first edition in a Very Good+ dust-jacket that is somewhat scuffed, signed by author Jayne Anne Phillips on the title page; The Hampsons are a family moving towards dissolution while also becoming entangled in webs of love. Evoking nostaliga for times past, Jean Hampson describes childhood in the 30's and 40's in a small town and falls in love with Mitch, a half-orphan raised by his aunt. Their love grows while he is away at war through letters and both parties search for self realizations; 8vo; 327 pages; Signed by Author .
Synopsis
Jayne Anne Phillips was born in Buckhannon, West Virginia. She is the author of three novels, MotherKind (2000), Shelter (1994) and Machine Dreams (1984 ) , and two collections of widely anthologized stories, Fast Lanes (1987) and Black Tickets (1979) . She is the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship, two National Endowment for the Arts Fellowships, and a Bunting Fellowship. She has been awarded the Sue Kaufman Prize for First Fiction (1980) and an Academy Award in Literature (1997) by the American Academy of Arts and Letters. Her work has been translated into twelve languages, and has appeared in Granta, Harper’s, DoubleTake, and The Norton Anthology of Contemporary Fiction . She is currently Professor of English and Director of the MFA Program at Rutgers-Newark, the State University of New Jersey. Her new novel, Lark and Termite , is forthcoming from Knopf.
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- Bookseller
- Books Tell You Why, Inc.
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 24140
- Title
- Machine Dreams - 1st Edition/1st Printing
- Author
- Phillips, Jayne Anne
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine in Very Good+ dust jacket
- Edition
- First Edition; First Printing
- ISBN 10
- 052524252X
- ISBN 13
- 9780525242529
- Publisher
- E. P. Dutton/Seymour Lawrence
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1984
- Keywords
- Collectible Rare Out-Of-Print, C2014VM0228S
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