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The Mysteries of Pittsburgh
by Michael Chabon
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/Very Good
- ISBN 10
- 0688076327
- ISBN 13
- 9780688076320
- Seller
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Carrollton, Texas, United States
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About This Item
New York: William Morrow, 1988. 1st/1st. VG/VG. Stated First Edition, first printing with complete 10 number line starting with 1. The book is very good. A hint of lean but pages tight with good corners and clean unmarred boards. Textblock is clean with no writing, bookplate or markings and not BCE, ex-library or remaindered. Dust jacket is unclipped ($16.95) and very good with mild shelf wear, faint tanning to flap edges and a half-inch closed tear to lower front panel near corner. Protected in a new Brodart Mylar cover.
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
- Armadillo Alley Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 2539
- Title
- The Mysteries of Pittsburgh
- Author
- Michael Chabon
- Format/Binding
- Cloth
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition / First Printing
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 0688076327
- ISBN 13
- 9780688076320
- Publisher
- William Morrow
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1988
- Bookseller catalogs
- First Editions;
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Armadillo Alley Books
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- Tight
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- Brodart
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- Bookplate
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- New
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- Shelf Wear
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- Jacket
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- Edges
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- First Edition
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- VG/VG
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- Number Line
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