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Sayonara
by James A. Michener
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/Very Good
- Seller
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Carrollton, Texas, United States
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About This Item
New York: Random House, New York, 1954. VG/VG. First Edition. Stated First Printing in the First State jacket with the "1/54" code at the bottom of the front flap. The book is tight and square with solid hinges and binding and clean black cloth and brown boards. Faded top stain. The top corners are slightly bumped and creases to the spine ends. The textblock is clean with no writing, bookplate, or markings, not BCE, ex-library, or remaindered. Light toning to pages. The dust jacket is unclipped ($3.50) with fading to spine, chip to spine head, corner wear, and light soiling to the back panel (see photos). Protected in a new Brodart Mylar cover. 243 pages. 5½ x 8¼" tall.
Classic early novel by Michener of a romance between an American officer and a Japanese actress. The basis for the 1957 movie starring Marlon Brando, Miyoshi Umeki, and Red Buttons.
Classic early novel by Michener of a romance between an American officer and a Japanese actress. The basis for the 1957 movie starring Marlon Brando, Miyoshi Umeki, and Red Buttons.
Synopsis
James A. Michener was one of the world’s most popular writers, the author of more than forty books of fiction and nonfiction, including the Pulitzer Prize–winning Tales of the South Pacific, the bestselling novels The Source, Hawaii, Alaska, Chesapeake, Centennial, Texas, Caribbean, and Caravans, and the memoir The World Is My Home . Michener served on the advisory council to NASA and the International Broadcast Board, which oversees the Voice of America. Among dozens of awards and honors, he received America’s highest civilian award, the Presidential Medal of Freedom, in 1977, and an award from the President’s Committee on the Arts and Humanities in 1983 for his commitment to art in America. Michener died in 1997 at the age of ninety.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Armadillo Alley Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 3997
- Title
- Sayonara
- Author
- James A. Michener
- Format/Binding
- Cloth
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition / First Printing
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Random House
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1954
- Pages
- 243
- Size
- 5.5 x 8.25
- Weight
- 3.00 lbs
- Keywords
- japan, romance, historical
- Bookseller catalogs
- First Editions;
Terms of Sale
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- Cloth
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- Spine
- The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....
- First State
- used in book collecting to refer to a book from the earliest run of a first edition, generally distinguished by a change in some...
- Brodart
- Generally used to refer to a clear plastic cover that is sometimes added to the dustjacket or outside covering of a book. The...
- First Edition
- In book collecting, the first edition is the earliest published form of a book. A book may have more than one first edition in...
- VG/VG
- Very Good Condition book with a Very Good Condition dust jacket. Very Good Condition indicates a used book that does show some...
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
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