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October Suite
by Clair, Maxine
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good +/Very Good+ DJ
- ISBN 10
- 0375506306
- ISBN 13
- 9780375506307
- Seller
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Southampton, Massachusetts, United States
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
New York: Random House, 2001. First Edition. Very Good +/Very Good+ DJ. 8vo = over 9". n/a. Printing Not Spec. Hardcover. Clean interior and exterior. No highlights or markings in text. Strong and tight binding. DJ is matte, clean, crisp.
Synopsis
Maxine Clair is the author of Rattlebone , a collection of short stories, which won the Chicago Tribune’s Heartland Prize for fiction; a collection of poems, Coping With Gravity ; and a fiction chapbook, October Brown , which won Baltimore’s Artscape Prize. Born and raised in Kansas City, Kansas, she worked for many years as chief medical technologist at the Children’s Medical Center in Washington, D.C. She is now an associate professor of English at George Washington University and lives in Maryland.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Heritage Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- F55033
- Title
- October Suite
- Author
- Clair, Maxine
- Illustrator
- n/a
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good +
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good+ DJ
- Edition
- First Edition
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 0375506306
- ISBN 13
- 9780375506307
- Publisher
- Random House
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 2001
- Pages
- 322pp
- Size
- 8vo = over 9"
- Keywords
Terms of Sale
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30 day return guarantee, with full refund including shipping costs for up to 30 days after delivery if an item arrives not as described or damaged.
About the Seller
Heritage Books
Biblio member since 2008
Southampton, Massachusetts
About Heritage Books
Our bookshop is located in the historic town library building of Southampton, Massachusetts. Southampton lies within the Pioneer Valley of Western Massachusetts with a view of Pomeroy Mountain to the West and Mt. Tom to the North. It is situated between the artistic, vibrant communities of Easthampton and Northampton and the city of Westfield. We have a collection of over 40,000 books with many more waiting to be unboxed and squeezed onto our shelves. The large double-door front entrance will lead you to our main floor where we hold a wide range of fiction and non-fiction titles, as well as a good selection of scarce and rare editions. The original fireplace is surrounded by hardbacks and you can peer out the original nine-foot windows. Take the staircase to the basement and you will find our large children's section and many shelves full of paperbacks. Our physical address is 225 College Highway/Route 10. Our mailing address is 241 College Highway & Clark St. P.O. Box 100 Southampton, MA 01073. The store hours indicated are by appointment only Monday through Friday, and Saturday and Sunday you can stop in. Please call to schedule an appointment if you can't make it to the store on the weekends from 11 am to 3 pm.
Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- 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...
- Good+
- A term used to denote a condition a slight grade better than Good.
- Crisp
- A term often used to indicate a book's new-like condition. Indicates that the hinges are not loosened. A book described as crisp...
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