NY: Random House, nd (1998). Black boards and black cloth back. Owner's signature and date on endpaper, else nice clean tight bright copy: Near Fine/Near Fine dj. 8vo. First trade edition, 2nd printing per print line. SIGNED on title page

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John Irving has been nominated for a National Book Award three times–winning once, in 1980, for the novel The World According to Garp. A Prayer for Owen Meany was published in 1989. In 1992, Mr. Irving was inducted into the National Wrestling Hall of Fame in Stillwater, Oklahoma. In 2000, he won the Oscar for Best Adapted Screenplay for The Cider House Rules –a film with seven Academy Award nominations.

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Bookseller: The Bear Bookshop, John Greenberg (US)
Bookseller's Inventory #: 9090412
Title: A Widow for One Year
Author: Irving, John
Format/Binding: Black boards and black cloth back
Book Condition: Used - Owner's signature and date on endpaper, else nice clean tight bright copy: Near Fine/Near Fine dj
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Random House
Place of Publication: NY
Date Published: nd (1998)
Pages: 537pp.
Size: 8vo
Keywords: First Editions, SIGNED BOOKS, Fiction, Novel, 20th Century American Literature

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