This Shape We're In
by Lethem, Jonathan
- Used
- fine
- First
- Condition
- Fine/near fine
- Seller
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Redding, California
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$15.00
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About This Item
New York: McSweeney's Books, 2001. First Edition, First Printing. Fine/near fine. A Novella. The slightest rubbing to edge extremities of dust jacket. Lethem is the author of Gun, with Occasional Music and Motherless Brooklyn among others. Gun, with Occasional Music won the Crawford Award for best fantasy novel and the Locus award for best first novel of the year. Motherless Brooklyn won the National Book Critics Circle Award for Fiction, The Macallan Gold Dagger for crime fiction, and the Salon Book Award, and was named book of the year by Esquire. Lethem is also the winner of the MacArthur Genius Grant in 2005.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Joseph S. Serrano, Bookseller
(US)
- Bookseller Inventory #
- 57
- Title
- This Shape We're In
- Author
- Lethem, Jonathan
- Book condition
- Used - Fine
- Jacket condition
- near fine
- Quantity available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition, First Printing
- Publisher
- McSweeney's Books
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date published
- 2001
- Bookseller catalogs
- Literature;
Terms of Sale
Joseph S. Serrano, Bookseller
(If photos of a book I have for sale are not included in the listing, I will be happy to provide one for you.) Fine is our highest grade; all book dust jackets are in archival covers. All our books that are described as First Editions are also First Printings, unless indicated otherwise. All books are guaranteed to be as described. We issue a full refund, including shipping costs, for returns due to an unstated defect or other mistake on our part. Please ask any questions before placing your order. All books are subject to prior sale. Books are shipped within 48 hours of payment confirmation.
About the Seller
Joseph S. Serrano, Bookseller
Biblio.com member since: 2005
Redding, California
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About Joseph S. Serrano, Bookseller
Joseph S. Serrano, a collector turned bookseller of Modern First Editions, Ephemera, and books of scarcity and rarity. A Internet/mail order bookstore located in San Francisco, California. Specialties are Modern First Editions in Literature and Mystery; Californiana including Zamorano 80 and San Francisco Ephemera; also Rare Books in all subjects of interest. Joseph Serrano's development as a Bibliophile/Bookman was described on the pages of the highly acclaimed book, "The Man Who Loved Books Too Much: The True Story of a Thief, a Detective,and a World of Literary Obsession" by Allison Hoover Bartlett, Riverhead 2009.
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