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CHRONIC CITY; A Novel
by Lethem, Jonathan
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Fine/Very Fine
- ISBN 10
- 0385518633
- ISBN 13
- 9780385518635
- Seller
-
Lake Forest, Illinois, United States
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About This Item
New York London Toronto Sydney Auckland: Doubleday, 2009. First Edition, First Printing. Cloth and boards. Very Fine/Very Fine. Tall 8vo, black quarter cloth with gilt lettering stamped on spine over black boards, archival polyester-protected pictorial dust jacket (unclipped) painted by Rodrigo Corral, 467 pages + [2] Note. Jonathan Lethem (born 1964) is an American "genre-bending" novelist, essayist, and short story writer. He has won major awards such as the National Book Critics Circle Award and a MacArthur Fellowship.<br/><br/>According to the author, Chronic City is "strongly influenced by Saul Bellow, Philip K. Dick, Charles Finney and Hitchcock's Vertigo, and it concerns a circle of friends including a faded child-star actor, a cultural critic, a hack ghost-writer of autobiographies, and a city official."<br/><br/>SUPERIOR CONDITION: Tight, bright, very clean in comparable dust jacket (unclipped) with minute rubbing to the head and foot of the dj's spine. No previous owner or remainder marks.
Synopsis
JONATHAN LETHEM is the author of seven novels. A recipient of the MacArthur Fellowship, Lethem has also published his stories and essays in The New Yorker , Harper's , Rolling Stone , Esquire , and the New York Times , among others.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Borg Antiquarian
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 6692
- Title
- CHRONIC CITY; A Novel
- Author
- Lethem, Jonathan
- Format/Binding
- Cloth and boards
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Very Fine
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition, First Printing
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 0385518633
- ISBN 13
- 9780385518635
- Publisher
- Doubleday
- Place of Publication
- New York London Toronto Sydney Auckland
- Date Published
- 2009
- Keywords
- Manhattan, space, journalism, sensationalism,
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
Borg Antiquarian
Biblio member since 2015
Lake Forest, Illinois
About Borg Antiquarian
BorgAntiquarian (ABAA & ILAB) is a dealer long engaged in selling exceptional collectibles: rare and fine books, autographs and manuscripts, fine art and artifacts. We are generalists in Americana, English & American literature, plus selected authors & important figures (Dickens & Darwin; presidents & 'signers'; scientists & historical figures; Revolutionary & Civil War militaria).
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