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Tales I Told My Mother
by Nye, Robert
- Used
- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- Very Good+ in Very Good dust jacket
- Seller
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The Woodlands, Texas, United States
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About This Item
New York: Hill and Wang. Very Good+ in Very Good dust jacket. 1969. First Edition. Hardcover. INSCRIBED by author on half-title page, "Rolland: This is being reissued in 1992. Best wishes, Robert Nye." First American Edition. "The author says that some of these stories began as dreams. Like dreams they are both subtle and crude; they take us along irresistibly and seem - however fantastic - incontrovertible." Ships same or next business day. Slight slant to spine. Moderate edge wear. Small bumps on bottom corners and spine ends. Light soiling to edges of pages. Overall, pages are clean and tight. Dust jacket protected in archival cover. DJ has normal edge and shelf wear. 1-inch tear on spine tail. Several tears along head and tail edges. Slightly yellowed. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 173 pages; Signed by Author .
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- Bookseller
- Good Books In The Woods
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 75069
- Title
- Tales I Told My Mother
- Author
- Nye, Robert
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good+ in Very Good dust jacket
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- Hill and Wang
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1969
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- Tail
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- Shelf Wear
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- Edges
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- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- Jacket
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- Good+
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- Inscribed
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- Spine
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- First Edition
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- Bumps
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