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Before She Met Me
by Barnes, Julian
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- G/G+
- ISBN 10
- 0070037477
- ISBN 13
- 9780070037472
- Seller
-
Castlemaine, Victoria, Australia
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About This Item
London: Jonathan Cape, 1982 G/G+. 8vo. original black boards gilt (ex-library, with rsms, pocket etc to outer leaves, FFE excised, spine a little canted) in dustwrapper (a little rubbed & creased, spine label, taped to endpapers); pp. 184 (last blank). A reading copy of the first edition.. First Edition. Hard Cover. G/G+.
Synopsis
JULIAN BARNES is the author of eleven novels, including The Sense of an Ending, Metroland, Flaubert's Parrot, A History of the World in 101/2 Chapters and Arthur & George ; three books of short stories, Cross Channel, The Lemon Table and Pulse . His work has been translated into more than thirty languages. In France he is the only writer to have won both the Prix Médicis (for Flaubert's Parrot ) and the Prix Femina (for Talking it Over ). He was awarded the Austrian State Prize for European Literature in 2004, the David Cohen Prize for Literature and the Man Booker Prize for Fiction in 2011. He lives in London.
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Details
- Seller
- Mount of Alex - Arapiles Mountain Books
(AU)
- Seller's Inventory #
- 011787
- Title
- Before She Met Me
- Author
- Barnes, Julian
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - G
- Jacket Condition
- G+
- Edition
- First Edition
- ISBN 10
- 0070037477
- ISBN 13
- 9780070037472
- Publisher
- Jonathan Cape
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1982
- Keywords
- Julian Barnes Before She Met Me Modern Literature
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
Mount of Alex - Arapiles Mountain Books
Biblio member since 2022
Castlemaine, Victoria
About Mount of Alex - Arapiles Mountain Books
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