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Tales Of The South Pacific
by Michener, James A
- Used
- very good
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- Very good
- Seller
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Cincinnati, Ohio, United States
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About This Item
New York: The Macmillan Company, 1947. First Edition, First Printing. Cloth. Very good. First edition, first printing of Tales of the South Pacific, signed by James A. Michener on a bookplate.. Octavo, v, [3], 326pp. Orange-beige cloth, title printed in blue on spine, light rubbing to edges. Stated "first printing" on copyright page. Solid text block, toning to leaves as expected. Housed in a facsimile dust jacket. This copy is signed by the author on a bookplate affixed to the front free endpaper. An attractive copy. Tales of the South Pacific is the Pulitzer Prize-winning collection of short stories by author James A. Michener. It follows his experience during World War II while stationed at Vanuatu. It was later adapted into a Broadway Musical (South Pacific) by Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein. Michener won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1948 and would go on to write over forty books during his lifetime.
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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- Bookseller
- The First Edition Rare Books, LLC
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 12241
- Title
- Tales Of The South Pacific
- Author
- Michener, James A
- Illustrator
- First edition, first printing of Tales of the South Pacific, signed by James A. Michener on a bookplate.
- Format/Binding
- Cloth
- Book Condition
- Used - Very good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition, First Printing
- Publisher
- The Macmillan Company
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1947
- Keywords
- first edition Tales of the South Pacific, signed book Jams Michener, first edition James Michener
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- First Edition
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- Edges
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- Rubbing
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- Cloth
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- Bookplate
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- Octavo
- Another of the terms referring to page or book size, octavo refers to a standard printer's sheet folded four times, producing...
- Jacket
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- Spine
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- Facsimile
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- Copyright page
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