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THE WASP FACTORY
by Banks, Iain
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- Signed
- First
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Middletown, Maryland
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$450.00
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About This Item
Boston: Houghton Mifflin Co., 1984. First U.S. edition of the AUTHOR'S FIRST BOOK -- SIGNED by Banks. Written from the first-person perspective of a sixteen-year-old describing his childhood, which included deaths within his family. Fine in dust jacket with only the barest wear on the spine ends.
Synopsis
The Wasp Factory was the first novel by Scottish writer Iain Banks. It was published in 1984.
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- Quill & Brush
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 52515
- Title
- THE WASP FACTORY
- Author
- Banks, Iain
- Book condition
- Used
- Quantity-available
- 1
- Publisher
- Houghton Mifflin Co.
- Place of Publication
- Boston
- Date Published
- 1984
- Bookseller catalogs
- AUTHOR'S FIRST BOOK;
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