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The Mysteries of Pittsburgh
by CHABON, Michael
- Used
- near fine
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Near Fine/Near Fine
- ISBN 10
- 0688076327
- ISBN 13
- 9780688076320
- Seller
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Springtown, Pennsylvania, United States
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About This Item
NY: Morrow, 1988. Bound in magenta boards over cream boards, stamped in silver. In bright white dust jacket. Overall, a tight, clean copy of the first edition of Chabon's first book. Chabon won the Pulitzer Prize for The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay. 297 pp.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Near Fine.
Synopsis
The Mysteries of Pittsburgh is a 1988 novel by American author Michael Chabon. The story is a coming-of-age tale set during the early 1980s in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. It was Chabon's first novel, which he began writing when he was a twenty-one-year-old undergraduate at the University of Pittsburgh.
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Details
- Bookseller
- abookshop (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 4000480
- Title
- The Mysteries of Pittsburgh
- Author
- CHABON, Michael
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Near Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Near Fine
- Edition
- First Edition
- ISBN 10
- 0688076327
- ISBN 13
- 9780688076320
- Publisher
- Morrow
- Place of Publication
- NY
- Date Published
- 1988
- Bookseller catalogs
- Addbooks94;
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