Stars & Bars

by Boyd, William

William Boyd’s first novel, A Good Man in Africa, won a Whitbread Prize and a Somerset Maugham Award; his second, An Ice-Cream War, was awarded the John Llewellyn Rhys Prize and was shortlisted for the Booker Prize; Brazzaville Beach won the James Tait Black Memorial Prize; and The Blue Afternoon won the Los Angeles Times Prize for Fiction. Boyd lives in London.

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Stars and Bars (Original screenplay for the 1988 film)

Stars and Bars (Original screenplay for the 1988 film)

by William Boyd (novel, screenwriter); Daniel Day Lewis, Harry Dean Stanton, Joan Cusak, Spalding Gray (starring); Pat O'Connor (director)

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1985
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Culver City, CA: Enigma Films Limited / Columbia Pictures, 1985. Revised Final Draft script for the 1988 film. Based on William Boyd's 1984 novel, about a British art scholar who travels to the American south to purchase a painting by Renoir from a family of eccentric hillbillies in rural Georgia. While the family's patriarch is content to… Read more about this item
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1984
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London: Hamish Hamilton, 1984. First edition. Hardcover. First printing. 255 pages. The third novel from this British writer. A very good plus copy with the typical tanning to the pages and some slight bumping to the base of the spine in a near fine dust jacket.
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STARS AND BARS.

by BOYD, William, 1952- :

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by Boyd, William

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1985
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1984
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New York: William Morrow and Company, 1984. Hardcover. Very Good/Near Fine. First American edition. Slight foxing on the page edges thus very good in a near fine dust jacket with toning on the rear flap fold and slight edgewear. Advance Review Copy with publisher's material laid in.
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by Boyd, William

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1985
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Gardners Books, 1985 Book. Very Good (+) Book. Soft cover. 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall. Nice condition with mild cover edge wear..
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1984
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Morrow, 1984. First Edition. Hardcover. Used - Like New/Like New. First UK Edition, First Printing. Not price-clipped (£8.50 price intact). Published by Hamish Hamilton, 1984. Octavo. Blue cloth boards stamped in gold. Book is like new; clean with no writing or names. Sharp corners and spine straight. Binding tight and pages crisp. Dust jacket is like new. 255… Read more about this item
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London : Hamish Hamilton, (1984). First edition. Signed by William Boyd on the title-page. Henderson Dores - shy, English, self-conscious and nearly forty - stands worrying in the middle of Park Avenue, New York City. Filmed in 1988 with Daniel Day-Lewis. Demy 8vo (23cm). (256)pp. Original blue boards, blocked and lettered in gilt; some mild tanning and spotting of edges,… Read more about this item
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London, England: Hamish Hamilton Ltd. Very Good. 1984. 1st Edition. Hardcover. 0241113431 . Blue hardcovers, gilt titles to the spine. A solid binding and a clean, unmarked text. Age tanning to the interior pages. There is a review name plate from the publisher to the previous owner on the title page. Overall in Very Good+ condition. The… Read more about this item
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London: Hamish Hamilton, 1984. 1st. hardback. Very good 1st edition with unclipped d/j, blue clothbound boards clean, gilt titling on spine bright, pages unmarked and tightly bound; some tanning. . 8vo (230 x 150 / 9"" x 6""). Sharply observed and brilliantly plotted, 'Stars and Bars' is an uproarious portrait of culture clash deep in the heart of… Read more about this item
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1984
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London: Hamish Hamilton, 1984. Hardcover. Near Fine/Fine. First edition. Pages are slightly age toned else fine in a fine dustwrapper.
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1984
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NY: William Morrow and Company, 1984. First US Edition. . Hardcover. Near Fine/Good. Second printing. INscribed by the author to noted Canadian writer and bibliophile Greg Gatenby, who has also signed and dated. Near fine in a good dustjacket that has a couple of repaired tears. (box 55/179a)
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William Morrow & Co, 1985. First Edition. Hardcover. Used - Like New/Like New. First Edition, First Printing. Not price-clipped ($16.95 price intact). Published by William Morrow, 1984. Octavo. Blue cloth over blue boards stamped in red with red endpapers. Book is like new; clean with no writing or names. Sharp corners and spine straight. Binding tight and pages… Read more about this item
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by BOYD, William

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