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THE BEAN TREES
by Barbara Kingsolver
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- hardcover
- First
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- ISBN 10
- 0060158638
- ISBN 13
- 9780060158637
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About This Item
New York: Harper. 1988. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. 0060158638 . Very Good in a Very Good dust jacket. First Edition stated. Scuffing and slight foxing to lower page edges. Taping to lower front and rear panels. Scuffing to front and rear panels. Front end page torn. Previous owner stamp to half title page. Bumps to rear panel. Ex -Library with the usual markings. ; 8.30 X 5.70 X 1.20 inches; 232 pages; Original unclipped dust jacket protected by archival Brodart cover. All domestic orders shipped protected in a Box. .
Synopsis
The Bean Trees , first published in 1988, is the first book written by Barbara Kingsolver and was followed by a sequel, Pigs in Heaven . Taylor Greer hightails it out of Kentucky as soon as she gets a car, refusing to be just another small-town girl. She soon finds herself in Oklahoma near Cherokee territory, and in a parking lot, a desperate and frightened woman hands Taylor a Cherokee toddler and leaves. Taylor and the child, named Turtle, keep moving out west and try to find somewhere to put down roots and grow. British Fantasy Award (1988)
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- Bookseller
- Rare Book Cellar
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- Bookseller Inventory #
- 103364
- Title
- THE BEAN TREES
- Author
- Barbara Kingsolver
- Format/binding
- Hardcover
- Book condition
- Used
- Edition
- First Edition; First Printing
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 0060158638
- ISBN 13
- 9780060158637
- Publisher
- Harper
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date published
- 1988
- Keywords
- 0060158638
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- jacket
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- half title
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- Bumps
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- First Edition
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