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Life on Earth
by Ballantine, Sheila
- Used
- first
- Condition
- very good: remainder mark top of text block, mild shelfwear, else fine./near fine: shelf wear, else fine. NOT price clipped ($16.95)
- ISBN 10
- 067160547X
- ISBN 13
- 9780671605476
- Seller
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Chattanooga, Tennessee, United States
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About This Item
Linden Press, 1988. first edition. hardcover. very good: remainder mark top of text block, mild shelfwear, else fine./near fine: shelf wear, else fine. NOT price clipped ($16.95). 8vo 174pp. from front flap: "In the ten stories (including the O. Henry Prize-winning "Perpetual Care") gathered in Life on Earth, her first collection, Ballantyne explores with characteristic poignancy and grace many of the same themes of family, contemporary life, loss, recovery, and compromised expectations that have haunted her earlier work." #00710.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Matthew's Books LLC
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 627
- Title
- Life on Earth
- Author
- Ballantine, Sheila
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - very good: remainder mark top of text block, mild shelfwear, else fine.
- Jacket Condition
- near fine: shelf wear, else fine. NOT price clipped ($16.95)
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- first edition
- Binding
- Unknown
- ISBN 10
- 067160547X
- ISBN 13
- 9780671605476
- Publisher
- Linden Press
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1988
- Keywords
- short stories, first edition, fiction
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About the Seller
Matthew's Books LLC
Biblio member since 2023
Chattanooga, Tennessee
About Matthew's Books LLC
small online used bookstore based in Chattanooga, TN. Little bit of everything, but lots of modern first editions.
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- First Edition
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- Text Block
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- Shelf Wear
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- Remainder Mark
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