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Rifles, The
by Vollmann, William T
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very Good/Very Good
- ISBN 10
- 0670848565
- ISBN 13
- 9780670848560
- Seller
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Middlebury, Vermont, United States
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About This Item
New York: Viking, 1994. reprint. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 411 pages, hardcover with dust jacket. Historical novel by noted author. Mild rubbing and edgewear to dust jacket. Remainder mark to lower text block edge. Bright and clean, a tight copy. Record # 4450002
Synopsis
Vaulting through time to another flashpoint in the long struggle between Indians and Europeans, William T. Vollmann 's visionary fictional history now focuses on the white explorers of the mid-1800s, desperately dreaming of forging a Northwest Passage. As Sir John Franklin embarks on his fourth Arctic voyage, he defies the warnings of the native people, and his journey ends in ice and death. But his spirit lingers in the Canadian north, where 150 years later, in 1990, Inuit elders dream of long-gone seal-hunting days and teenagers sniff gasoline. And when a white man seduces and leaves pregnant a young Indian woman, he becomes Franklin reincarnated, bound for the same fate. Vollmann's vivid characters and landscapes weave together the stories of the past and present to live out America's ongoing tragedy of greed, ignorance, and violence.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Monroe Street Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 4450002
- Title
- Rifles, The
- Author
- Vollmann, William T
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Edition
- reprint
- ISBN 10
- 0670848565
- ISBN 13
- 9780670848560
- Publisher
- Viking
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1994
- Keywords
- Fiction, Novels, reprint, , .
Terms of Sale
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Monroe Street Books
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Glossary
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- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Reprint
- Any printing of a book which follows the original edition. By definition, a reprint is not a first edition.
- Text Block
- Most simply the inside pages of a book. More precisely, the block of paper formed by the cut and stacked pages of a book....
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- Remainder Mark
- Usually an ink marking of some sort which indicates that the book was designated a remainder. In most cases, it can be found on...
- Rubbing
- Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.
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