THE ACCIDENTAL TOURIST
by Tyler, Anne
- Used
- Fine
- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- Fine/No Dust Jacket, as Issued
- Seller
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Williamsburg, Virginia, United States
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About This Item
Norwalk, Connecticut: The Easton Press, 1999. 355 pages. Limited Collector's Edition of the winner of the 1986 National Book Critics Circle Award for fiction. SIGNED by the author. Beautifully bound in full brown leather, with gilded decoration on spine and both covers; all edges gilt. Laid in are an Easton certificate of authenticity and an Easton card with "a note about THE ACCIDENTAL TOURIST." The book is in virtually as-new condition, except for an unused Easton bookplate affixed to the blank verso of the helf-title page.. SIGNED. First Edition Thus. Hardcover. Fine/No Dust Jacket, as Issued. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Book.
Synopsis
The Accidental Tourist is a 1985 novel by Anne Tyler that was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize and won the National Book Critics Circle Award for Fiction. The novel was adapted into a 1988 award-winning film starring William Hurt, Kathleen Turner and Geena Davis.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Tennyson Williams, Books and Fine Art
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- W1751
- Title
- THE ACCIDENTAL TOURIST
- Author
- Tyler, Anne
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine
- Jacket Condition
- No Dust Jacket, as Issued
- Edition
- First Edition Thus
- Publisher
- The Easton Press
- Place of Publication
- Norwalk, Connecticut
- Date Published
- 1999
- Size
- 8vo - over 7¾" - 9&f
- Bookseller catalogs
- Literary First Editions; Autographs and Signed Books;
Terms of Sale
Tennyson Williams, Books and Fine Art
We hold books only for firm orders. Books may be returned within 7 days of receipt for refund of purchase price. We pay shipping costs only if we have made a significant error in description.
About the Seller
Tennyson Williams, Books and Fine Art
Biblio member since 2004
Williamsburg, Virginia
About Tennyson Williams, Books and Fine Art
Our office, located in historic Williamsburg, Virginia, is open by appointment or by chance. We are antiquarian booksellers who buy and sell carefully selected books for collectors and researchers in many genre. We also sell important autographs and photographs as well as original art, including wood engravings by Winslow Homer and J. J. Lankes; lithographs by Miró, Matisse, Calder, Wengenroth, and others; and works from the American Etching Revival. You can reach us by telephone: (757)378-5400; or by email: twbooks1@cox.net.
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- Gilt
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- Jacket
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