WISH YOU WERE HERE (SIGNED)
by Graham Swift
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- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- New/New
- ISBN 10
- 0307700127
- ISBN 13
- 9780307700124
- Seller
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Monkton, Maryland, United States
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About This Item
HARDCOVER. SIGNED in Person at the Book Signing Event. WISH YOU WERE HERE by Graham Swift (2012). SIGNED to the Full Title page by Graham Swift, the author. Brand New and Never owned. This is the American FIRST Edition, FIRST Printing copy as stated on the copyright page. ISBN on the rear dust jacket is 978-0307-7001-24. Published by Alfred A. Knopf, New York. Dust jacket is in Brand New condition with no issues. The book has no tears, marks, creases, remainder marks, library markings, or black lines on the edges. Not inscribed to anyone. Not price-clipped, not a Book Club Edition (BCE), or signed on a bookplate. True Collectible Quality. First Edition, First Printing, hand SIGNED to the Full Title page. No inscription; full signature only. From a Book Reading/Signing event featuring Graham Swift in New York City on September 23, 2017. FREE: A copy of three book reviews of Wishing You Were Here is included. This book will be carefully wrapped and shipped with free delivery confirmation.* Graham Swift is the author of The Sweet-Shop Owner (1980); Shuttlecock (1981), which received the Geoffrey Memorial Prize; Learning to Swim; Waterland (1983), which was shortlisted for the Booker Prize and won The Guardian Fiction Award, the Winifred Holtby Mamorial Prize, and the Italian Premio Grinzane Cavour; Out of This World (1988); Ever After (1992), which won the French Prix du Meilleur Livre Étranger; Last Orders (1996), which won the Booker Prize, The Light of Day (2003), longlisted for the Man Booker Prize; Tomorrow (2007); Making an Elephant (2009); Wish You Were Here (2011); Chemistry (2008); England and Other Stories (2014); Mothering Sunday: A Romance (2016); and Here We Are (2020). Waterland was adapted into a film of the same name in 1992. The film was directed by Stephen Gyllenhaal and starred Ethan Hawke, Jeremy Irons, and Sinéad Cusack. Wish You Were Here was published on April 17, 2012. ISBN: 978-307-7001-24. BS13853.
Synopsis
GRAHAM SWIFT is the author of eight acclaimed novels and a collection of short stories; his most recent work is Making an Elephant , a book of essays, portraits, poetry and reflections on his life in writing. With Waterland he won the Guardian Fiction Prize, and with Last Orders the Booker Prize. Both novels have since been made into films. Graham Swift's work has appeared in over thirty languages.
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- Bookseller
- Charm City Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- BS13853
- Title
- WISH YOU WERE HERE (SIGNED)
- Author
- Graham Swift
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover w/ Dust Jacket
- Book Condition
- New New
- Jacket Condition
- New
- Quantity Available
- 2
- Edition
- FIRST EDITION, FIRST PRINTING
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 0307700127
- ISBN 13
- 9780307700124
- Publisher
- Alfred A. Knopf, New York, First Edition, (Apr. 17, 2012)
- Place of Publication
- UNITED STATES
- Date Published
- Apr 17, 2012
- Pages
- 332
- Keywords
- Brothers, Soldiers, Death, Devon, England, Fiction, Domestic Fiction
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- SIGNED BOOKS;
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