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Tales of the South Pacific
by Michener, James A.[lbert]
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- Signed
- Condition
- Original tan cloth, original dust jacket with illustration by J. O. M. Cosgrave II. Fine copy in very good plus dust jacket
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About This Item
New York: Macmillan Company, 1952. Fourteenth printing, 1952. 1 vols. 8vo. Original tan cloth, original dust jacket with illustration by J. O. M. Cosgrave II. Fine copy in very good plus dust jacket. Fourteenth printing, 1952. 1 vols. 8vo. SIGNED. Signed by the author on the title page: "James A. Michener Glassboro 3 - 11 - 52". Groseclose A.003; Eighty-Nine Good Novels of the Sea (Lilly Library)
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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- James Cummins Bookseller
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 351714
- Title
- Tales of the South Pacific
- Author
- Michener, James A.[lbert]
- Format/Binding
- 1 vols. 8vo
- Book Condition
- Used - Original tan cloth, original dust jacket with illustration by J. O. M. Cosgrave II. Fine copy in very good plus dust jacket
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- Fourteenth printing, 1952
- Publisher
- Macmillan Company
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1952
- Keywords
- American | First Book | Pacific
- Bookseller catalogs
- Literature; History, Travel & Geography;
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