Transactions in a Foreign Currency
by Deborah Eisenberg
- Used
- fine
- hardcover
- First
- Condition
- Fine/Fine
- ISBN 10
- 0394545982
- ISBN 13
- 9780394545981
- Seller
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WINFIELD, Kansas
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$16.00
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About This Item
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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Details
- Bookseller
- Walnut Valley Books/Books by White
(US)
- Bookseller 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
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 0394545982
- ISBN 13
- 9780394545981
- Publisher
- Alfred A Knopf, Publisher
- Place of Publication
- New York, NY
- Date published
- 1986
- Keywords
- short stories, fiction, Deborah Eisenberg, The New Yorker,
- Size
- 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall
Terms of Sale
Walnut Valley Books/Books by White
30 day return guarantee, with full refund including original shipping costs for up to 30 days after delivery if an item arrives misdescribed or in the unfortunate event, damaged. All books are packed and wrapped with care to avoid shifting during shipment and edge/tip strikes during the mailing process.
About the Seller
Walnut Valley Books/Books by White
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WINFIELD, Kansas
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About Walnut Valley Books/Books by White
Our Back to School sale is on with 20% discounts on all books in our inventory. 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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