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Pocket, 1-Mar-79. First Pocket Books Printing. Good. One spine crease & heavy shelf wear on turquoise cover. Aged pages, no writing or marks. Amazon: Garp was a natural storyteller,"""""""" says the narrator of John Irving's incandescent novel, referring to the book's hero, the novelist Garp, who has much in common with Irving himself. """"""""He could make things up one right after the other, and they seemed to fit."""""""" Irving packs wild characters and weird events into his classic--officially recognized as such in a Modern Library edition with a new introduction by the author--while amazingly maintaining the rough feel of realism in every scene and the pulse of life in every heart. Many novelists of his time might have populated a novel with a novelist protagonist whose life and books comment on each other and the novel we're reading. Transsexual football… Read More

Dutton; Bookthrift. Book Club. Hardcover. Used - Acceptable/Poor. Dust jacket has shelf wear. Cover not as pictured. Aged.

[ Edition: First ]. Good Condition. [ No Hassle 30 Day Returns ][ Ships Daily ] [ Underlining/Highlighting: NONE ] [ Writing: NONE ] Publisher: Dutton Adult Pub Date: 4/24/1978 Binding: Hardcover Pages: 437

New York: Ballantine Books/ A Division of Random House, Inc., 1990. 1st Ballantine Books Edition, Dec. 1990 . Mass Market Paperback. Very Good. 12mo or 12° (Duodecimo): 6¾" x 7¾" tall. 609 pp. Clean, fresh copy with very light shelf wear, crisp pages and clean text. A great reading copy.

New York: Straight Arrow Press, 1979:Dec. 13. First publication. Periodical. Very Good. First appearance of "The World of the World According to Garp," an 8 page interview, with photographs, by Greil Marcus. A couple of small closed tears else a complete, intact copy.

Hardcover. Fair. Knopf 1978 hardcover first edition, second printing. Cover shows minor wear, some bumping of edges. Pages unmarked. Binding sound. Dust jacket shows some troubling, with considerable edgewear on the spine ends and corners.

Toronto: Alfred A. Knopf Canada, 1999. Hardcover with unclipped dust jacket, 170 pages, plus many black-and-white photographs; very clean and unmarked unread condition.. First Canadian Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine.

gollancz, 1978. Hardcover. Very Good. not ex-library copy.. hardcover edition without dustjacket...binding solid..text unmarked..NOT EX-LIB.. first u.k. edition, first printing..

London England: Black Swan, 1999. A brilliant panoply of current attitueds towards sex, marriage and parenthood, the feminist movement, and - above all - the concept of deineatee exual roles...Paperback (We carry a wide selection of titles in The Arts, Theology, History, Politics, Social and Physical Sciences. academic and scholarly books and Modern First Editions ,and all types of Academic Literature.). 1st Black Swan Edition. Softcover. Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Paperback.

Hutchinson of Australia/Victor Gollancz, No date. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good Condition/Very Good. 1/4 black coloured cloth covered back strip with gilt coloured titles. 3/4 gold blue coloured boards. Plaintext dustwrapper with red and gold coloured titles to the front panel and back strip. Black and white photograph of author to the rear panel. A classic. Minor rubbing of the book corners and back strip corners. Very, very light age toning of the text block edges and pages. A little rubbing of the dustwrapper edges and panels with fading of the back strip. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. [8], 3 - 437, [3] pages.. Please refer to accompanying picture (s). Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category: Literature; Inventory No: 0290781. .

New York.: E.P. Dutton., 1978.. First edition, third printing.. Gilt decorated hard cover. . Fine copy in fine (price clipped) dust jacket (in mylar). . 4to.. Very scarce in this condition.

New York: Dutton, 1978. First. hardcover. fine. 8vo, cloth backed boards.. New York: Dutton, (1978). First Edition<br/> <br/> Fine copy without dust wrapper.<br/> <br/>

The Modern Library, 1998. First ML Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Octavo. With a new introduction by the author not in the first trade edition. Has the '1' in a number line. A clean, unmarked and unclipped copy.

New York: Pocket Books, 1979. Softcover. Near Fine. First Pocket Books edition. Mass market paperback. Light edgewear and rubbing, near fine. Basis for the 1982 film starring Robin Williams. Pocket 82220-9.

New York: Pocket Books, 1979. Softcover. Near Fine. First Pocket Books edition. Mass market paperback. Light edgewear with modest rubbing, about near fine. Basis for the 1982 film starring Robin Williams. Pocket 82220-9.

New York: Pocket Books, 1979. Softcover. Very Good. First Pocket Books edition. Mass market paperback. Modest rubbing with a short tear on the cover, very good or better. Basis for the 1982 film starring Robin Williams. Pocket 82220-9.

New York: Pocket Books, 1979. Softcover. Very Good. First Pocket Books edition. Mass market paperback. Moderate rubbing, a short tear with a small abrasion on the cover, very good. Basis for the 1982 film starring Robin Williams. Pocket 82220-9.

E.P. Dutton, 1978. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good/Good. First edition, fifth printing. A Henry Robbins Book. Very mild spotty discoloration to top exterior edges of pages. Laminate on jacket is chipping or separated from printed paper below in places around edges. Two closed tears to top of back jacket. Wear to top and bottom of spine wrap and jacket at spine. Tanning pages that are clean and unmarked. General wear along edges of jacket.

first edition first printing hardcover in second state dust jacket; no marks of any kind; minimal age tone; tight bind; 1/4 cloth cover has little fade along spine, bright gilt titling; dj (2nd state, 1/8 in. short) has small nicks at spine ends, short tear top back; flap price 10.95 present ambibab

New York: E. P. Dutton, ( 1978 ). First Printing. Hardcover. Very Good/very good. 8vo, 437 pages, clothbacked yellow boards, bookplate, inked name on half-title page; unclipped dj has light shelfwear along the edges, and only a small "paper cut" midway up at the top flap fold. Irving's 4th novel, and the first to make people sit up and take notice. Made into a notable film starring a young Robin Williams.