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A Good Scent from a Strange Mountain..
by BUTLER, Robert Olen
- Used
- as new
- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- As New/Fine
- ISBN 10
- 0805019863
- ISBN 13
- 9780805019865
- Seller
-
Edmonds, Washington, United States
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About This Item
New York: Henry Holt & Company, 1992. Signed on the title page by the author. First edition / First printing. Beige cloth spine, gray paper-covered boards. Very fine in fine first state dust jacket. Winner of the 1993 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction.
Reviews
On Mar 30 2005, Ash Grove Heirloom Books said:
Pulitzer Prize winning collection of short stories fictionalized from interviews of Vietnamese living in Lake Charles area of New Orleans. These are the stories of the people who really lost the war and their homeland, the exiles.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Orpheus Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 18654-1
- Title
- A Good Scent from a Strange Mountain..
- Author
- BUTLER, Robert Olen
- Format/Binding
- Beige cloth spine, gray paper-covered boards.
- Book Condition
- New As New
- Jacket Condition
- Fine
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First edition / First printing.
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 0805019863
- ISBN 13
- 9780805019865
- Publisher
- Henry Holt & Company,
- Place of Publication
- New York:
- Date Published
- 1992.
- Pages
- 249 pages.
- Bookseller catalogs
- Fiction;
Terms of Sale
Orpheus Books
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About the Seller
Orpheus Books
Biblio member since 2004
Edmonds, Washington
About Orpheus Books
We specialize exclusively in First Edition/First Printing books. Our best books are rated very fine and we are most conservative in our grading. We take pride in maintaining a significant selection of fine books. Your trust is of great importance to us and everything we sell is guaranteed. Archival dust jacket covers are provided with all hardcover books.
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