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The War of Don Emmanuel's Nether Parts
by Louis de Bernieres
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/Dust Jacket Included
- ISBN 10
- 0688111297
- ISBN 13
- 9780688111298
- Seller
-
Catawissa, Pennsylvania, United States
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
New York: William Morrow, 1990. FIrst U.S. Edition. First Printing. In three quarter peach paper over boards and blue cloth spine with gilt lettering. Square, tight binding. Clean, umarked endpapers and pages. Bumping of ends of spine. Small press defect on lower back cover. Jacket: price intact on upper front flap. Light bumping of edges. Moderate shelf rubbing. In new protective jacket cover. Pictures upon request. Thank you for your patronage.. Hard Cover. Very Good/Dust Jacket Included. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.
Synopsis
Louis de Bernieres' novels include The War of Don Emmanuel's Nether Parts (Commonwealth Writers Prize, Best First Book Eurasia Region, 1991), Senor Vivo and the Coca Lord (Commonwealth Writers Prize, Best Book Eurasia Region, 1992), and The Troublesome Offspring of Cardinal Guzman . The author, who lives in London, was selected as one of the twenty Best of Young British Novelists 1993.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Quaker House Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 002524
- Title
- The War of Don Emmanuel's Nether Parts
- Author
- Louis de Bernieres
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Dust Jacket Included
- ISBN 10
- 0688111297
- ISBN 13
- 9780688111298
- Publisher
- William Morrow
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1990
- Size
- 8vo - over 7¾" - 9&f
- Keywords
- FICTION, DRAMA
- Bookseller catalogs
- Fiction, Drama;
Terms of Sale
Quaker House Books
Items must be returned within ten days of sale for a full refund if not satisfied.
About the Seller
Quaker House Books
Biblio member since 2006
Catawissa, Pennsylvania
About Quaker House Books
My book holdings are eclectic in nature.
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- Rubbing
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- Spine
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- Gilt
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- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- Edges
- The collective of the top, fore and bottom edges of the text block of the book, being that part of the edges of the pages of a...
- Cloth
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