Bloodletting & Miraculous Cures
by Lam, Vincent
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Near Very Good/Good to Very Good
- ISBN 10
- 0385661436
- ISBN 13
- 9780385661430
- Seller
-
Fredericton, New Brunswick, Canada
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
Toronto: Doubleday Canada/Random House of Canada, 2006. Book. Near Very Good. Hardcover. First Edition.. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. First printing w/complete number sequence. One of only 5,000 first edition copies, this is Lam's first book, being a collection of 12 interwoven stories that won the Giller Prize. Black cloth w/red spine lettering, 355 pages (including glossary, acknowledgments, brief author biography). Somewhat cocked, light edgewear, in dust jacket w/light rubbing, edgewear, 1/8" nick to top right spine end, nicks to top spine folds, 1/2" tear to bottom left spine edge, impressions. Jacket in protective mylar sleeve..
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Details
- Bookseller
- Augustine Funnell Books (CA)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 016678
- Title
- Bloodletting & Miraculous Cures
- Author
- Lam, Vincent
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Near Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Good to Very Good
- Edition
- First Edition.
- ISBN 10
- 0385661436
- ISBN 13
- 9780385661430
- Publisher
- Doubleday Canada/Random House of Canada
- Place of Publication
- Toronto
- Date Published
- 2006
- Size
- 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾
- Keywords
- MEDICINE, MEDICAL PROFESSION, DOCTOR, DOCTORS, STUDENTS, GILLER PRIZE WINNER, NOISBN, WINNERS
- Bookseller catalogs
- Canadian Fiction;
Terms of Sale
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Postage extra. All items returnable within seven days of receipt for full refund if received by us in same condition as sent.
About the Seller
Augustine Funnell Books
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Fredericton, New Brunswick
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- Jacket
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- Cloth
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- First Edition
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- Cocked
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- Rubbing
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- Spine
- The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....