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Ship of Fools
by Porter, Katherine Anne
- Used
- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket
- Seller
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The Woodlands, Texas, United States
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About This Item
Boston: Little, Brown and Company/Atlantic Monthly. Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket. 1962. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. SIGNED by Katherine Anne Porter in black ink on the half title page. Book is clean and bright, no previous owner marks, no remainder marks. Bottom corners gently rubbed. Dust Jacket has its original price of $6.50. Dust jacket is clean and bright with minor wear to ends of spine and corners. Ship of Fools was based on Porter's own sea trip from Mexico to Germany in 1931 and took her 22 years to write. It outsold every other book published in 1962 and she sold the film rights for $500,000. Dust jacket protected in a clear plastic Brodart cover. Ships same or next business day very well protected in a box. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 497 pages; Signed by Author .
Synopsis
Ship of Fools was published in 1962, but takes place in the summer of 1931, on a cruise ship bound for Germany. It's diverse passengers include a noble Spanish woman, a drunken German lawyer, an American divorcee, and a pair of Catholic priests from Mexico, not to mention the disposable masses who are riding in the steerage. The story is all about the characters, these real, dishonest, selfish people that we all know, and their interactions on this voyage.
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- Bookseller
- Good Books In The Woods
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 81929
- Title
- Ship of Fools
- Author
- Porter, Katherine Anne
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket
- Edition
- First Edition; First Printing
- Publisher
- Little, Brown and Company/Atlantic Monthly
- Place of Publication
- Boston
- Date Published
- 1962
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- Brodart
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- Fine
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