Stars and Bars
by Boyd, William
- Used
- Very Good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good
- ISBN 10
- 0241113431
- ISBN 13
- 9780241113431
- Seller
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Vars, Ontario, Canada
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About This Item
London, England: Hamish Hamilton Ltd. Very Good. 1984. 1st Edition. Hardcover. 0241113431 . Blue hardcovers, gilt titles to the spine. A solid binding and a clean, unmarked text. Age tanning to the interior pages. There is a review name plate from the publisher to the previous owner on the title page. Overall in Very Good+ condition. The DJ has been clipped but is intact with no marks of tears, some cover rubbing and edgewear. "All Henderson Dores dreams of is fitting in. But America, land of the loony millionaire and the subway poet, down-home Bible-basher and sharp-suited hood, of paralyzing personal frankness and surreally fantasized facilities, is hard enough for an Englishman to fit in to. "; 8.50 X 5.59 X 1.10 inches; 260 pages .
Synopsis
William Boyd’s first novel, A Good Man in Africa , won a Whitbread Prize and a Somerset Maugham Award; his second, An Ice-Cream War , was awarded the John Llewellyn Rhys Prize and was shortlisted for the Booker Prize; Brazzaville Beach won the James Tait Black Memorial Prize; and The Blue Afternoon won the Los Angeles Times Prize for Fiction. Boyd lives in London.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Bytown Bookery (CA)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 19229
- Title
- Stars and Bars
- Author
- Boyd, William
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- ISBN 10
- 0241113431
- ISBN 13
- 9780241113431
- Publisher
- Hamish Hamilton Ltd
- Place of Publication
- London, England
- Date Published
- 1984
- Keywords
- 0241113431
- Bookseller catalogs
- Fiction,;
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- Rubbing
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