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Maps
by Farah, Nuruddin
- Used
- Very Good
- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/Very Good, Not Price Clipped
- ISBN 10
- 1559704853
- ISBN 13
- 9781559704854
- Seller
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Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
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About This Item
New York, New York: Arcade Publishing, 1999. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. Signed by Author(s). American First. First edition, first printing as evidenced by a complete number line from 1 to 10; signed by Naruddin Farah on the title page with no inscription; some edge wear to boards and dust jacket; three pages have a small crease at the lower right corner; otherwise a solid, clean copy with no marking or underlining; collectible condition; dust jacket is protected by a Brodart sleeve..
Synopsis
This first novel in Nuruddin Farah's Blood in the Sun trilogy tells the story of Askar, a man coming of age in the turmoil of modern Africa. With his father a victim of the bloody Ethiopian civil war and his mother dying the day of his birth, Askar is taken in and raised by a woman named Misra amid the scandal, gossip, and ritual of a small African village. As an adolescent, Askar goes to live in Somalia's capital, where he strives to find himself just as Somalia struggles for national identity.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Hourglass Books (CA)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 003892
- Title
- Maps
- Author
- Farah, Nuruddin
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good, Not Price Clipped
- Edition
- American First
- ISBN 10
- 1559704853
- ISBN 13
- 9781559704854
- Publisher
- Arcade Publishing
- Place of Publication
- New York, New York
- Date Published
- 1999
- Keywords
- International Fiction
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- Number Line
- A series of numbers appearing on the copyright page of a book, where the lowest number generally indicates the printing of that...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- First Edition
- In book collecting, the first edition is the earliest published form of a book. A book may have more than one first edition in...
- Title Page
- A page at the front of a book which may contain the title of the book, any subtitles, the authors, contributors, editors, the...
- Brodart
- Generally used to refer to a clear plastic cover that is sometimes added to the dustjacket or outside covering of a book. The...