If Morning Ever Comes (Signed)
by TYLER, Anne
- Used
- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- VG++/VG++ Price-Clipped
- Seller
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Springtown, Pennsylvania, United States
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About This Item
NY: Knopf, 1964. The first edition of the author's first book in the first state dustwrapper (albeit price-clipped) that has 10/64 on the bottom corner of the front flap. Dustwrapper shows one closed tear to top of rear panel and minimal chipping to top of spine. Book has been read, but is relatively tight and clean. Author-Signed Bookplate affixed to half-title page. Certainly above average and priced right. . AUTHOR-SIGNED Bookplate. First Edition. Hard Cover. VG++/VG++ Price-Clipped.
Synopsis
If Morning Ever Comes is American author Anne Tyler's first novel, published when she was only 22. Set in Sandhill, North Carolina, it focuses on Ben Joe Hawkes, a self-proclaimed worrier who finds himself responsible for taking care of his mother and five sisters after his father deserts the family for his mistress and subsequently dies of a heart attack.
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- Bookseller
- abookshop
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 007736
- Title
- If Morning Ever Comes (Signed)
- Author
- TYLER, Anne
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - VG++
- Jacket Condition
- VG++ Price-Clipped
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- Knopf
- Place of Publication
- NY
- Date Published
- 1964
- Keywords
- First Book
- Bookseller catalogs
- Signed; Featured Books; Addbooks03;
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- Bookplate
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- First State
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- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- Dustwrapper
- Also known as book jacket, dust cover, or dust wrapper, a dust jacket is a protective and decorative cover for a book that is...
- Spine
- The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....
- Chipping
- A defect in which small pieces are missing from the edges; fraying or small pieces of paper missing the edge of a paperback, or...
- First Edition
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