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The Story of a Shipwrecked Sailor
by Marquez, Gabriel Garcia
- Used
- Fine
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Fine/Fine
- ISBN 10
- 0394548108
- ISBN 13
- 9780394548104
- Seller
-
Chico, California, United States
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
New York: Knopf, 1986. The full title continues: ".who drifted on a life raft for ten days without food or water, was proclaimed a national hero, kissed by beauty queens, made rich through publicity, and then spurned by the government and forgotten for all time." Originally published as a series of newspaper articles, based upon an actual event and tempered with hallmark magic realish. This is a Fine copy of the First Edition (stated) in an unclipped dustjacket. In an archival plastic protector. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. First Edition.. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Quercus Rare Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 001450
- Title
- The Story of a Shipwrecked Sailor
- Author
- Marquez, Gabriel Garcia
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Fine
- Edition
- First Edition.
- ISBN 10
- 0394548108
- ISBN 13
- 9780394548104
- Publisher
- Knopf
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1986
- Bookseller catalogs
- Modern Literature;
Terms of Sale
Quercus Rare Books
We accept checks and money orders in US Dollars. Credit card orders are accepted through Biblio. California residents add appropriate sales tax. Items are returnable for any reason within ten days of receipt (please email or call first before returning item).
About the Seller
Quercus Rare Books
Biblio member since 2006
Chico, California
About Quercus Rare Books
Quercus Books seeks out and provides to the discriminating Reader or Collector noteworthy books in the First Edition. Our particular focus is on Modern Literature (roughly from the Second World War to the present) and Irish Authors. We also retain a small stock of non-fiction titles, mostly in the fields of American Western History, American Indians, and the American Civil War. Member of IOBA - the Independent Online Booksellers Association.
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- Fine
- A book in fine condition exhibits no flaws. A fine condition book closely approaches As New condition, but may lack the...
- First Edition
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