SOFTBACK SHIPPED FROM THE UK.* Edition: 1st. Thus.* Impression: 3rd Reprint.* Date of Publication: 1998* Publisher: Picador* Binding and cover condition: Monochrome photo-illustrated soft card covers. No bumps or rubs. Slight shelf wear to edges & corners. No creases to spine or hinge. Seems lightly used. VG+* Contents condition: PRIVATE COPY NOT EX-LIBRARY. Clean, crisp & tight. No annotations, inscriptions or marks to text. No tanning. Very slightly grubby to page edges. VG++* Illustrations: None.* Pages: 290 pp. text. ii pp. blank pages at rear.* Product Description:- A raw, irreverent and charming account of a mis-spent youth and a raucous adulthood, in 1952, travelling steerage, Malachy McCourt left a childhood of poverty in Limerick, Ireland, heading for the promise of New York and America. By the brother of Frank McCourt, famed author of ?Angela?s Ashes.?* This is a NEAR FINE copy of the 1st./3rd. with some light shelf wear.*

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Bookseller: Cocksparrow Books (GB)
Bookseller's Inventory #: 4940
Title: A Monk Swimming - A Memoir
Author: McCourt, Malachy
Format/Binding: Paperback
Book Condition: Used - VG++/VG+/ND
Quantity Available: 1
Edition: First Edition 3rd. Imp.
ISBN 10: 0330361120
ISBN 13: 9780330361125
Publisher: Picador
Place of Publication: Sydney , Australia. 290
Date Published: 1998-01-01
Size: 22.4 x 14 x 2.5 cm

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