New York, NY: Alfred A Knopf, Publisher, 1986 Alfred A Knopf, Publisher, New York. 1986. Hardcover. Stated First Edition. Book is tight, square, and unmarked. Book Condition: Fine. DJ: Fine; NOT Price Clipped ($15.95). Off-white boards with white cloth overlay on spine with bright gilt lettering on the spine. 213 pp 8vo. A collection of seven stories by the author which range from an elegant East Side apartment to a YMCA locker room. Her characters are alive and articulate and often amusing people immersed in the emotional and circumstantial complexities of modern life. Their professions, diversions, textures of their material worlds are as much of the pleasure of the stories as are their quirky lives. A clean pristine copy.

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Bookseller: Walnut Valley Books/Books by White (US)
Bookseller's Inventory #: 006362
Title: Transactions in a Foreign Currency
Author: Deborah Eisenberg
Format/Binding: Hardcover
Book Condition: Used - Fine
Jacket Condition: Fine
Quantity Available: 1
Edition: 1st Edition
ISBN 10: 0394545982
ISBN 13: 9780394545981
Publisher: Alfred A Knopf, Publisher
Place of Publication: New York, NY
Date Published: 1986
Size: 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾
Keywords: short stories, fiction, Deborah Eisenberg, The New Yorker,

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Walnut Valley Books is a small independent home-based business with the bulk of my holdings being of an American military nature covering everything from the Revolutionary War to the current wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. I also have holdings of books on the Middle East, the southwestern United States (New Mexico especially, Kansas related titles, Oklahoma related titles, and other regionally specialized books. All of my holdings are hand-selected to be good quality books of interest to the reader, historian, or the collector. In addition to the above, you will also find a wide range of other topics such as Medical, US History, autobiographical, biographical, sports, women's studies, and many other eclectic topics.

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