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I Am the Clay
by Potok, Chaim
- Used
- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- VG+/Near Fine
- ISBN 10
- 067941195X
- ISBN 13
- 9780679411956
- Seller
-
Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States
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About This Item
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1992 WYSIWYG pricing--no added shipping charge for standard shipping within USA. Signed card tipped in. Quarter black gloth, grey paper-covered boards, gilt titles on spine & monogram on front board, blind device on rear board, [xi], 211, [1] pp. Card signed by author is tipped onto half-title. Bottom corner of rear board bumped, small bumps to bottom edges of both boards, else fine. DJ has faint smudges; in Brodart archival cover. Shipping weight 2 lbs. (International 1 lb., 12 oz.). First Edition. . VG+/Near Fine. 22 X 14½ cm.
Synopsis
"Potok writes powerfully about the suffering of innocent people caught in the cross-fire of a war they cannot begin to understand....Humanity and compassion for his characters leap from every page."SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLEAs the Chinese and the army of the North sweep south during the Korean War, an old peasant farmer and his wife flee their village across the bleak, bombed-out landscape. They soon come upon a boy in a ditch who is wounded and unconscious. Stirred by possessiveness and caring the woman refuses to leave the boy behind. The man thinks she is crazy to nurse this boy, to risk their lives for some dying stranger. Angry and bewildered, he waits for the boy to die. And when the boy does not die, the old man begins to believe that the boy possesss a magic upon which all their lives depend....From the Paperback edition.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Twin City Antiquarian Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- LIFI00177
- Title
- I Am the Clay
- Author
- Potok, Chaim
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - VG+
- Jacket Condition
- Near Fine
- Edition
- First Edition
- ISBN 10
- 067941195X
- ISBN 13
- 9780679411956
- Publisher
- Alfred A. Knopf
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1992
- Keywords
- Fiction Autographed
- Bookseller catalogs
- Fiction;
- X weight
- 32 oz
- Size
- 22 X 14½ cm
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Twin City Antiquarian Books
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- The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....
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