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First Person Singular: Writers on Their Craft
by OATES, Joyce Carol, compiled by
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/Near Fine
- ISBN 10
- 0865380376
- ISBN 13
- 9780865380370
- Seller
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Gloucester City, New Jersey, United States
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About This Item
Princeton, New Jersey: Ontario Review Press, 1983. Hardcover. Very Good/Near Fine. First edition. 280pp. Boards slightly splayed with a faint tideline at foot and bottom corners, spine with a touch of foxing, very good in a near fine dust jacket. Publisher's slip laid in. Contributions by John Updike, Cynthia Ozick, Saul Bellow, Gail Godwin, Bernard Malamud, Eudora Welty, Hortense Calisher, Margaret Atwood, Ned Rorem, Adrienne Rich, Howard Nemerov, Mary Gordon, Reynolds Price, Anne Tyler, Dave Smith, William Stafford, Daniel Halpern, E.L. Doctorow, Alice Adams, Grace Schulman and more.
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- Bookseller
- Between the Covers- Rare Books, Inc. ABAA
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 570483
- Title
- First Person Singular: Writers on Their Craft
- Author
- OATES, Joyce Carol, compiled by
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Near Fine
- Quantity Available
- 1
- ISBN 10
- 0865380376
- ISBN 13
- 9780865380370
- Publisher
- Ontario Review Press
- Place of Publication
- Princeton, New Jersey
- Date Published
- 1983
- Keywords
- LitCrit, AmerLit20thCent
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
Between the Covers- Rare Books, Inc. ABAA
Biblio member since 2005
Gloucester City, New Jersey
About Between the Covers- Rare Books, Inc. ABAA
Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc., founded in 1985, specializes in first editions of 20th Century American and English fiction. Our inventory of over 75,000 first editions includes: African-American literature & history, Mysteries, Detective Fiction, Drama, Books into Film and Sports books. We routinely issue extensively illustrated color catalogs, available by subscription. We are members of the Antiquarian Booksellers' Association of America (ABAA)and the International League of Antiquarian Booksellers (ILAB). Tom Congalton, founder of Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc., actively promotes the ethics and standards of these professional organizations and served as President of the ABAA from 2000 to 2002.
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