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Oswald's Tale: An American Mystery
by Norman Mailer
- Used
- near fine
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Near Fine/Dust Jacket Included
- ISBN 10
- 0679425357
- ISBN 13
- 9780679425359
- Seller
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Catawissa, Pennsylvania, United States
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About This Item
New York: Random House, 1995. Stated First Edition. First Printing. Near Fine copy. Near Fine jacket. In black paper over boards and black cloth spine with gilt lettering. Clean, unmarked endpapers and pages. Jacket: Price intact on upper front flap. Light bumping to tail of spine and upper edge of back panel. Minimal shelf rubbing. In protective jacket cover.. 1st Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Dust Jacket Included. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.
Synopsis
In perhaps his most important literary feat, Norman Mailer fashions an unprecedented portrait of one of the great villains—and enigmas—in United States history. Here is Lee Harvey Oswald—his family background, troubled marriage, controversial journey to Russia, and return to an “America -waiting- for him like an angry relative whose eyes glare in the heat.” Based on KGB and FBI transcripts, government reports, letters and diaries, and Mailer’s own international research, this is an epic account of a man whose cunning, duplicity and self-invention were both at home in and at odds with the country he forever altered. (Publisher’s Summary)
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Details
- Bookseller
- Quaker House Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 001477
- Title
- Oswald's Tale: An American Mystery
- Author
- Norman Mailer
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Near Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Dust Jacket Included
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- ISBN 10
- 0679425357
- ISBN 13
- 9780679425359
- Publisher
- Random House
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1995
- Size
- 8vo - over 7¾" - 9&f
- Keywords
- BIOGRAPHY, OSWALD
- Bookseller catalogs
- Biography;
Terms of Sale
Quaker House Books
Items must be returned within ten days of sale for a full refund if not satisfied.
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Quaker House Books
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- Tail
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- Gilt
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- Fine
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- Spine
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- Cloth
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