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Northern Lights
by O'Brien, Tim
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/Near Fine
- Seller
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Tucson, Arizona, United States
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About This Item
First edition 1st printing, Very Good book with sun fade along edges of purple boards, pushed at spine ends, page block bowed inward away from spine at top, light rubbing bottom edges of boards and page block, very light foxing spots front and top edges; in a Near Fine jacket light edge wear, some age yellowing top edges of flaps, slight rubbing on panels. This copy of his second book has been signed by O'Brien on the title page.
Synopsis
TIM O’BRIEN received the 1979 National Book Award in fiction for Going After Cacciato . His other works include the Pulitzer finalist and a New York Times Book of the Century, The Things They Carried ; the acclaimed novels Tomcat in Love and Northern Lights ; and the national bestselling memoir If I Die in a Combat Zone . His novel In the Lake of the Woods received the James Fenimore Cooper Prize from the Society of American Historians and was named the best novel of 1994 by Time . In 2010 he received the Katherine Anne Porter Award for a distinguished lifetime body of work and in 2012 he received the Richard C. Holbrooke Distinguished Achievement Award from the Dayton Literary Peace Prize Foundation. He was awarded the Pritzker Literature Award for Lifetime Achievement in Military Writing in 2013.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Squid Ink Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- biblio5396
- Title
- Northern Lights
- Author
- O'Brien, Tim
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Near Fine
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- Signed 1st printing of O'Brien's second book
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Delacorte
- Place of Publication
- US
- Date Published
- 1975
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Bookseller catalogs
- Fiction;
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About the Seller
Squid Ink Books
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Tucson, Arizona
About Squid Ink Books
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- Rubbing
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- Spine
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