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The Story of a Shipwrecked Sailor

The Story of a Shipwrecked Sailor

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The Story of a Shipwrecked Sailor

by Gabriel Garcia Marquez

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  • Hardcover
  • first
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ISBN 10
0394548108
ISBN 13
9780394548104
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First American hardcover edition, with dust jacket, published by Knopf, 1986. Marquez based this novel on the true story of Luis Velasco, who was a Columbian Navy sailor ho was washed overboard, appearing ten days later, washed up on a beach. Translated from the original Spanish by Randolph Hogan. 106 pages, 5-7/8" X 8-1/2". Blue cloth covered boards. The dust jacket is intact and is not price clipped. Jacket flaps have several age tanning spots, and a spot of rubbing wear to the top left corner of the front panel. Jacket has been protected with a clear, removable cover. No former ownership marks, no writing on the text pages. Some dots of age tanning to the top edge of the text block. Cover boards are flat, the corners are not bumped or creased, no edge wear. This is not a remainder, not a library discard copy. The attached photos are of the copy we have in our inventory.

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Bookseller
Hopkins Books US (US)
Bookseller's Inventory #
22-10677
Title
The Story of a Shipwrecked Sailor
Author
Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Book Condition
Used - Very Good
Jacket Condition
Very Good-
Quantity Available
1
Binding
Hardcover
ISBN 10
0394548108
ISBN 13
9780394548104
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Place of Publication
New York
Date Published
1986
Bookseller catalogs
Literature in Translation;

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