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The Bean Trees: A Novel [Signed] by Barbara KINGSOLVER - Signed First Edition - 1988 - from Lorne Bair Rare Books (SKU: 23214)

The Bean Trees: A Novel [Signed]

The Bean Trees: A Novel [Signed] by Barbara KINGSOLVER - Signed First Edition - 1988 - from Lorne Bair Rare Books (SKU: 23214)
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The Bean Trees: A Novel [Signed]

by KINGSOLVER, Barbara

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About This Item

New York: Harper & Row, 1988. First Edition. First Printing. Octavo; brown paper over beige cloth, with titles stamped in dark brown on spine; dustjacket; 232pp. Signed by Kingsolver on the half-title page. Fine in a Fine, unclipped dustjacket (priced $16.95). An attractive copy of the author's well-received first novel.

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
Lorne Bair Rare Books US (US)
Bookseller Inventory #
23214
Title
The Bean Trees: A Novel [Signed]
Author
KINGSOLVER, Barbara
Book condition
Used
Quantity available
1
Edition
First Edition
Publisher
Harper & Row
Place of Publication
New York
Date published
1988
Bookseller catalogs
Modern Fiction;

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About Lorne Bair Rare Books

Lorne Bair Rare Books specializes in books, mansuscripts, and printed ephemera relating to American Social History, with an emphasis on radical and utopian movements of the 18th, 19th, and 20th centuries. We are available in our showroom by appointment, at shows, and on-line through various booksellers' sites or at our website www.lornebair.com.

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