The Games Were Coming [Bound Galley Copy]
by [CARIBBEANA] ANTHONY, Michael
- Used
- first
- Condition
- See description
- Seller
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Winchester, Virginia, United States
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About This Item
Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1968. First American Edition. Octavo (28cm); publisher's galley sheets, comb-bound into printed card covers; pp.1-68a. Light wear and dustiness to covers and text edges, with a few faint, tiny stains to front cover; Very Good+. The Trinidadian author and historian's first novel (initially publshed by Andre Deutsch in 1963), a cycling novel set against the backdrop of the Southern Games and Trinidad's annual Carnival.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Lorne Bair Rare Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 50998
- Title
- The Games Were Coming [Bound Galley Copy]
- Author
- [CARIBBEANA] ANTHONY, Michael
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First American Edition
- Publisher
- Houghton Mifflin Company
- Place of Publication
- Boston
- Date Published
- 1968
- Bookseller catalogs
- Modern Fiction; Sixties; Postcolonial Literature;
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
Lorne Bair Rare Books
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Winchester, Virginia
About Lorne Bair Rare Books
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- Edges
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- Octavo
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- Good+
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