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Art and Lies
by Winterson, Jeanette
- Used
- Very Good
- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/Very Good
- ISBN 10
- 0224031457
- ISBN 13
- 9780224031455
- Seller
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Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States
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About This Item
London: Jonathan Cape Ltd, 1994. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 7x5x1. Jonathan Cape, 1994; First Printing with full number line. Signed by Jeanette Winterson on title page, no further inscription. Binding is tight, sturdy, and square; very minor wear to edges of burgundy cloth boards, gilt titling remains bright and bold; text very good. Unclipped dust jacket in VG condition, arrives wrapped in protective mylar. Ships from Dinkytown in Minneapolis, Minnesota.
Synopsis
A novelist whose honours include England’s Whitbread Prize, and the American Academy’s E. M. Forster Award, as well as the Prix d’argent at the Cannes Film Festival, Jeanette Winterson burst onto the literary scene as a very young woman in 1985 with Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit . Her subsequent novels, including Sexing the Cherry , The Passion , Written on the Body , and The PowerBook , have also gone on to receive great international acclaim. Her latest novel is Lighthousekeeping , heralded as "a brilliant, glittering, piece of work" ( The Independent ). She lives in London and the Cotswolds. From the Hardcover edition.
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- Bookseller
- The Book House in Dinkytown
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 302720
- Title
- Art and Lies
- Author
- Winterson, Jeanette
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- ISBN 10
- 0224031457
- ISBN 13
- 9780224031455
- Publisher
- Jonathan Cape Ltd
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1994
- Size
- 7x5x1
- X weight
- 19 oz
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