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A Certain Age
by Janowitz, Tama
- Used
- near fine
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Near Fine/No Jacket
- ISBN 10
- 0747544964
- ISBN 13
- 9780747544968
- Seller
-
Chico, California, United States
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About This Item
London: Bloomsbury, 1999. Janowitz, author of "Slaves of New York," has won several awards, and perhaps someday will live down her unfortunate designation as a "brat-pack" author. This is a Near Fine copy of the First English Edition, issued in an interesting decorative cover designed byWilliam Webb, and without a dustwrapper. Clean and fresh text, with a mild bump to one corner, else Fine. Surprisingly uncommon. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. First UK Edition.. Hard Cover. Near Fine/No Jacket.
Synopsis
Tama Janowitz is the author of Slaves of New York , A Cannibal in Manhattan , American Dad , The Male Cross-Dressers Support Group , and By the Shores of Gichee Gumee , and is the recipient of two NEA grants in fiction, as well as a New York State Council of the Arts Award in Fiction. She lives in Brooklyn with her husband and daughter.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Quercus Rare Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 001398
- Title
- A Certain Age
- Author
- Janowitz, Tama
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Near Fine
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket
- Edition
- First UK Edition.
- ISBN 10
- 0747544964
- ISBN 13
- 9780747544968
- Publisher
- Bloomsbury
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1999
- Bookseller catalogs
- Modern Literature;
Terms of Sale
Quercus Rare Books
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About the Seller
Quercus Rare Books
Biblio member since 2006
Chico, California
About Quercus Rare Books
Quercus Books seeks out and provides to the discriminating Reader or Collector noteworthy books in the First Edition. Our particular focus is on Modern Literature (roughly from the Second World War to the present) and Irish Authors. We also retain a small stock of non-fiction titles, mostly in the fields of American Western History, American Indians, and the American Civil War. Member of IOBA - the Independent Online Booksellers Association.
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