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BIRDY.
by Wharton, William (pseudonym of Albert William Du Aime, 1925 - 2008)
- Used
- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- Good in good dust jacket (discoloration from glue to endpapers and underneath dj flaps, remainder line, hint of spine slant, etc/good
- ISBN 10
- 0394425693
- ISBN 13
- 9780394425696
- Seller
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About This Item
New York:: Alfred A. Knopf,, 1979.. SIGNED hardcover first edition -. Good in good dust jacket (discoloration from glue to endpapers and underneath dj flaps, remainder line, hint of spine slant, etc. Original price of 8.95 on dj flap) . First printing. An extraordinary first novel, the story of a boy - and later a man's - obsession with flight, an obsession that both liberates him and drives him to madness. SIGNED on the title page. Winner of the National Book Award. Basis for the film of the same name starring Nicholas Cage. 310 pp. Dust jacket by Fred Marcellino.
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
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- Title
- BIRDY.
- Author
- Wharton, William (pseudonym of Albert William Du Aime, 1925 - 2008)
- Format/Binding
- SIGNED hardcover first edition -
- Book Condition
- Used - Good in good dust jacket (discoloration from glue to endpapers and underneath dj flaps, remainder line, hint of spine slant, etc
- Jacket Condition
- good
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 0394425693
- ISBN 13
- 9780394425696
- Publisher
- Alfred A. Knopf,
- Place of Publication
- New York:
- Date Published
- 1979.
- Keywords
- world war ii fiction, movie basis, national book award,
- Bookseller catalogs
- First book or first novel;
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