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In the Time of the Butterflies
by Alvarez, Julia
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Near Very Good/Very Good
- ISBN 10
- 1565120388
- ISBN 13
- 9781565120389
- Seller
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Gastonia, North Carolina, United States
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About This Item
Chapel Hill, NC: Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill, 1994. First Edition . Hardcover. Near Very Good/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. 325 pp. Pencil marginalia on six pages. The binding is tight and square. The jacket is slightly rubbed along the upper edge. A novel of the Dominican Republic, based on historical events, 1930-1961.
Synopsis
In the Time of the Butterflies is a novel by Julia Alvarez, fictionalizing the lives of the Mirabal sisters from their personal accounts of what happened during the time. It recounts the rebellion against Rafael Leónidas Trujillo, the dictator of the Dominican Republic. The main characters are the Mirabal sisters, Patria, Minerva, Dedé, and María Teresa.
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- Bookseller
- Persephone's Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 011018
- Title
- In the Time of the Butterflies
- Author
- Alvarez, Julia
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Near Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- ISBN 10
- 1565120388
- ISBN 13
- 9781565120389
- Publisher
- Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill
- Place of Publication
- Chapel Hill, NC
- Date Published
- 1994
- Size
- 8vo - over 7¾" - 9&f
- Keywords
- Fiction - Dominican Republic
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Glossary
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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...
- First Edition
- In book collecting, the first edition is the earliest published form of a book. A book may have more than one first edition in...
- Marginalia
- Marginalia, in brief, are notes written in the margins, or beside the text of a book by a previous owner. This is very...
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.