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Shuggie Bain
by Douglas Stuart
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- Signed
- Condition
- Very Good/Very Good
- ISBN 10
- 1529019273
- ISBN 13
- 9781529019278
- Seller
-
Carrollton, Texas, United States
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About This Item
London: Picador , 2020. SIGNED. VG/VG. Exclusive Waterstones Edition. Eighth printing. Signed by Douglas Stuart on a special bound-in page. The book is tight with solid hinges with black cloth boards. Tiny tear to spine tail and top corners lightly bumped. The textblock is clean with no writing, bookplate, or markings and not BCE, ex-library, or remaindered. Illustrated endpapers. The dust jacket is unclipped (£14.99) with a tiny tear to the spine tail and a faint crinkle to the top front corner. Removable Waterstones sticker. Protected in a new Brodart Mylar cover. 430 pages. 6¼ x 9½" tall.
The story of Hugh "Shuggie" Bain, the youngest of three children, a sweet and lonely boy who spends his 1980s childhood in run-down public housing in Glasgow, Scotland. Thatcher's policies have put husbands and sons out of work, and the city's notorious drugs epidemic is waiting in the wings.
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On Apr 14 2022, a reader said:
Readable but boring
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Details
- Bookseller
- Armadillo Alley Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 4391
- Title
- Shuggie Bain
- Author
- Douglas Stuart
- Format/Binding
- Cloth
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- Signed Edition
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 1529019273
- ISBN 13
- 9781529019278
- Publisher
- Picador
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 2020
- Pages
- 430
- Size
- 6.25 x 9.5
- Keywords
- booker prize, Scotland, LGBT, historical
- Bookseller catalogs
- Signed Books;
Terms of Sale
Armadillo Alley Books
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About the Seller
Armadillo Alley Books
Biblio member since 2020
Carrollton, Texas
About Armadillo Alley Books
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- Tail
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- New
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- VG/VG
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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....
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