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THE ISLAND OF THE COLORBLIND
by Sacks, Oliver
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Collectible, Fine/Near Fine
- ISBN 10
- 0679451145
- ISBN 13
- 9780679451143
- Seller
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Concord, California, United States
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About This Item
Alfred A. Knopf Incorporated, New York, 1997, 1997. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Collectible, Fine/Near Fine. Octavo, hardcover, fine in near fine peach and blue decorative dj. 298 pp. including index. Endpapers show map of the Pacific and the Island of Pohnpei. 20 illustrations and 3 maps. Drawn to the tiny Pacific atoll of Pingelap by intriguing reports of an isolated community of islanders born totally color-blind, Sacks finds himself setting up a clinic in a one-room island dispensary, where he listens to these achromatopic islanders describe their colorless world in rich terms of pattern and tone, luminance and shadow.
Synopsis
John Irving published his first novel at the age of twenty-six. He has received awards from the Rockefeller Foundation, the National Endowment for the Arts, and the Guggenheim Foundation; he has won an O. Henry Award, a National Book Award, and an Academy Award. Mr. Irving lives with his family in Toronto and Vermont.
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Details
- Bookseller
- bookwitch (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 81354
- Title
- THE ISLAND OF THE COLORBLIND
- Author
- Sacks, Oliver
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Collectible, Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Near Fine
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 1st Edition 1st Printing
- ISBN 10
- 0679451145
- ISBN 13
- 9780679451143
- Publisher
- Alfred A. Knopf Incorporated, New York, 1997
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1997
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- Octavo
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