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by Keneally, Thomas
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About This Item
New York: Nan A. Talese/Doubleday Publishing, (c2007). First Edition. First Printing Very good in 1/4 black cloth and yellow paper covered boards with gilt text stamping on the spine. An octavo of 8 1/8 by 5 1/2 inches with a remainder dot on the lower edge of the text block and with the first 58 pages damaged by humidity causing slight wavy feel to the pages, but there is no staining or discoloration. In a near fine, unclipped dust jacket with very modest soiling to the panels. 272 pages of text and illustrated with 16 pages of plates from color and black and white photographs. The story behind the making of the author's award winning book: Schindler's List.
Synopsis
Thomas Keneally has won international acclaim for his novels Schindler's List (the basis for the movie and the winner of the Booker Prize), The Chant of Jimmie Blacksmith , Confederates , Gossip from the Forest , The Playmaker , Woman of the Inner Sea , A River Town , Office of Innocence , and The Tyrant’s Novel . His most recent works of nonfiction are A Commonwealth of Thieves , The Great Shame , and American Scoundrel . He resides in Sydney, Australia.
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- Bookseller
- Town's End Books
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- TB32160
- Title
- Searching for Schindler
- Author
- Keneally, Thomas
- Book Condition
- Used
- Edition
- First Edition
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Nan A. Talese/Doubleday Publishing
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- (c2007)
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- Text Block
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- Cloth
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- Spine
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- Fine
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- Octavo
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- Remainder
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- First Edition
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- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Gilt
- The decorative application of gold or gold coloring to a portion of a book on the spine, edges of the text block, or an inlay in...
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