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Tales of the South Pacific
by James A. Michener
- Used
- good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Good/Fair
- Seller
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Traralgon, Victoria, Australia
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About This Item
Collins, London, 1951. First Edition. Hardcover. Good/Fair. Hardcover. 320 pages. *** PUBLISHING DETAILS: Collins, London, 1951. First Edition. This is the first UK edition. *** CONDITION: The book itself is in good condition and comes in fair dust jacket. More specifically: Edges of boards have superficial edgewear and corners are moderately bumped. Dust jacket has moderate creasing. Edges of dust jacket have moderate wear and moderate chips and/or tears. The dust jacket has been price-clipped. Edges of pages are mildly foxed. Pages are reasonably tanned. Previous owner's name ink-stamped. *** ABOUT THIS BOOK: Enter the exotic world of the South Pacific, meet the men and women caught up in the drama of a big war. The young Marine who falls madly in love with a beautiful Tonkinese girl. Nurse Nellie and her French planter, Emile De Becque. The soldiers, sailors, and nurses playing at war and waiting for love in a tropic paradise. BOMC edition as stated on copyright page. The actual date of printing is unstated but is after the mid-eighties as compact disc recordings are mentioned. *** Quantity Available: 1. Category: Fiction; Historical; Inventory No: 22040053..
Synopsis
Tales of the South Pacific is a Pulitzer Prize winning collection of sequentially related short stories about World War II, written by James A. Michener in 1946. The stories were based on observations and anecdotes he collected while stationed as a lieutenant commander in the US Navy on the island of Espiritu Santo in the New Hebrides Islands (now known as Vanuatu). The skipper of PT-105 met Michener while stationed at the PT boat base on Tulagi in the Solomon Islands.
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- Seller
- Manyhills Books
(AU)
- Seller's Inventory #
- 22040053
- Title
- Tales of the South Pacific
- Author
- James A. Michener
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Jacket Condition
- Fair
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- Collins
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1951
- Keywords
- BZDB5 Fiction; Tales of the South Pacific
- Bookseller catalogs
- Historical; Fiction;
Terms of Sale
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Traralgon, Victoria
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- BOMC
- Book-of-the-Month Club These are popular books republished and sold at a discounted price by one of these many clubs, the...
- Fair
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- First Edition
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- Edges
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- Foxed
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- Copyright page
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- Jacket
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