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The Poisonwood Bible
by Kingsolver, Barbara
- Used
- Fine
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Fine/Near Fine
- ISBN 10
- 0060175400
- ISBN 13
- 9780060175405
- Seller
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Concord, California, United States
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About This Item
New York. HarperCollins, 1998 First Edition, First Printing., 1998. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. Royal octavo, hardcover, near fine in VG, beige dust jacket. A story of post-colonial Africa. A suspenseful epic of what follows when an evangelistic family travels to the Belgian Congo in 1959. Everything they bring from home in America, is calamitously transformed on African soil.
Synopsis
The Poisonwood Bible (1998) by Barbara Kingsolver is a bestselling novel about a missionary family, the Prices, who in 1959 move from Georgia to the fictional village of Kilanga in the Belgian Congo. The Prices' story, which parallels their host country's tumultuous emergence into the post-colonial era, is narrated by the five women of the family: Orleanna, long-suffering wife of Baptist missionary Nathan Price, and their four daughters – Rachel, Leah, Adah, and Ruth May.
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Details
- Bookseller
- bookwitch (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 20748a
- Title
- The Poisonwood Bible
- Author
- Kingsolver, Barbara
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Near Fine
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 1st Edition 1st Printing
- ISBN 10
- 0060175400
- ISBN 13
- 9780060175405
- Publisher
- New York. HarperCollins, 1998 First Edition, First Printing.
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1998
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- Octavo
- Another of the terms referring to page or book size, octavo refers to a standard printer's sheet folded four times, producing...
- First Edition
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- VG
- Very Good condition can describe a used book that does show some small signs of wear - but no tears - on either binding or...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Fine
- A book in fine condition exhibits no flaws. A fine condition book closely approaches As New condition, but may lack the...