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Mysteries of Winterthurn
by Oates, Joyce Carol
- Used
- Fine
- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- Fine/No Jacket
- ISBN 10
- 0224021974
- ISBN 13
- 9780224021975
- Seller
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Evanston, Illinois, United States
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About This Item
Franklin Center, PA: Franklin Library, 1984. First Edition . Full-Leather. Fine/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾"- 9¾" tall. Signed by author on a front free endpaper. From the Franklin Library's First Edition Society, this is an as new copy of the true first edition. Full leather w/gilt page edges, marbeled endpapers, raised bands, gilt decoration to spine and boards, ribbon marker. Still in original plastic wrap package from Franklin
Synopsis
In addition to many prize-winning and bestselling novels, including We Were the Mulvaneys, Black Water , and Because It Is Bitter and Because It Is My Heart (available in Plume editions), Joyce Carol Oates is the author of a number of works of gothic fiction including Haunted: Tales of the Grotesque (Plume), a 1995 World Fantasy Award nominee; and Zombie (Plume), winner of the 1996 Bram Stoker Award for Best Horror Novel, awarded by the Horror Writers' Association. In 1994, Oates received the Bram Stoker Lifetime Achievement Award in Horror Fiction. She is the editor of American Gothic Tales and her latest novel is Broke Heart Blues (Dutton). She lives in Princeton, New Jersey.
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- Bookseller
- Books, Interesting and Odd & Sleepyside Books
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 001111
- Title
- Mysteries of Winterthurn
- Author
- Oates, Joyce Carol
- Format/Binding
- Full-Leather
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 0224021974
- ISBN 13
- 9780224021975
- Publisher
- Franklin Library
- Place of Publication
- Franklin Center, PA
- Date Published
- 1984
- Size
- 8vo - over 7¾"- 9&fr
- Bookseller catalogs
- Signed Books;
- X weight
- 0 lbs
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About the Seller
Books, Interesting and Odd & Sleepyside Books
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About Books, Interesting and Odd & Sleepyside Books
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