The Flame Alphabet
by Marcus, Ben
BEN MARCUS is the author of three books of fiction: Notable American Women, The Father Costume, and The Age of Wire and String, and he is the editor of The Anchor Book of New American Short Stories. His stories have appeared in Harper’s Magazine, The New Yorker, The Paris Review, McSweeney’s, Tin House, and Conjunctions. He is the recipient of a Whiting Writers’ Award, a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship in Fiction, and awards from the Creative Capital Foundation and the American Academy of Arts and Letters. He lives in New York City and Maine. www.benmarcus.com
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The flame alphabet
by Marcus, Ben
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- 2012
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New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2012. First edition (stated). Hardcover. Very gentle rubbing to spine foot, extremely mild wear to spine head and corners, light soiling to fore-edge, bright pages in tight binding, exceedingly gentle rubbing to DJ corners, else near fine(+) in near fine(+) DJ./near fine. Large octavo in red-green-yellow DJ, 289 pages, 25 cm. DJ protected… Read more about this item Item Price
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The Flame Alphabet
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The Flame Alphabet
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- 2012
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NY: Knopf, 2012. 1st. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Marcus creates a chilling world where the speech of children is killing their parents. After being forced to leave their daughter Esther to fend for herself, Sam and Claire end up at a government lab intent on creating non-lethal speech. But when Sam… Read more about this item Item Price
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The Flame Alphabet [Signed by Marcus!]
by Marcus, Ben
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New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2012. First edition. Hardcover. Fine/fine. Signed by Marcus! Blue and red paper covered boards in dust jacket, octavo, not illustrated. Book has handsome boards and tight binding, text clean and unmarked. DJ fine, in archival mylar. Item Price
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by Marcus, Ben
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- 2012
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The Flame Alphabet
by Ben Marcus
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The Flame Alphabet
by Marcus, Ben
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The Flame Alphabet
by Marcus, Ben
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- First Edition
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- 2012-01-17
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- 9780307379375
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The Flame Alphabet
by Marcus, Ben
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The Flame Alphabet
by Ben Marcus
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- 2012
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The Flame Alphabet
by Marcus, Ben
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- 2012
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by Marcus, Ben
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The Flame Alphabet
by Ben Marcus
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The Flame Alphabet
by Ben Marcus
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- 05/02/2013
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The Flame Alphabet
by Ben Marcus
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The Flame Alphabet
by Ben Marcus
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- January 2012
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THE FLAME ALPHABET
by Marcus, Ben
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- First Edition
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- 2012
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- Hardcover; First Printing
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