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TOO FAR FROM HOME - LIMITED EDITION, SIGNED
by Bowles, Paul (novel); McBey, Marguerite (illustrations)
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- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
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Stephenson, Virginia, United States
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About This Item
London: Peter Owen Publishers, 1994. First Edition. Limited Issue, one of 100 numbered copies specially bound and signed by the author on the copyright page, this being copy no.98. Octavo (22.25cm); black cloth, with titles stamped in gilt on spine; publisher's original unprinted white tissue dustjacket; [8],9-93,[3]pp; illus. Tiny scuff to front cover, else very Near Fine in a Fine dustjacket. Limited issue of this late novel by Bowles (at the time, his first in 25 years), centered around an American woman, newly divorced and world-weary, who escapes her routine in New York to join her brother in the African desert.
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- Bookseller
- Captain Ahab's Rare Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 5636
- Title
- TOO FAR FROM HOME - LIMITED EDITION, SIGNED
- Author
- Bowles, Paul (novel); McBey, Marguerite (illustrations)
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Peter Owen Publishers
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1994
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Captain Ahab's Rare Books
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Stephenson, Virginia
About Captain Ahab's Rare Books
Founded in 2010, Captain Ahab's Rare Books specializes in first editions of literature, genre fiction, film-related books and ephemera, zines, manuscript and archival material.
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- Octavo
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- Gilt
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- New
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- Cloth
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- Fine
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