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BACK WHEN WE WERE GROWNUPS
by Tyler, Anne
- Used
- Fine
- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- Fine/Fine
- ISBN 10
- 0375412530
- ISBN 13
- 9780375412530
- Seller
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Fernandina Beach, Florida, United States
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About This Item
NY: Knopf, 2001. First edition, first prnt. Signed by Tyler on a tipped-in page as issued. One of an unspecified number of copies as such issued for promotional purposes. Unread copy in Fine condition in a Fine dustjacket with an archival cover. tyler wrote this novel in memory of her husband, psychiatrist and novelist Taghi Mohammad Modarressi, who died in 1997. Hardcovers. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.
Synopsis
Back When We Were Grownups is a 2001 novel written by Anne Tyler in memory of her husband, who died in 1997. Tyler's 15th novel, set in Baltimore, Maryland like most of her work, opens with the sentence, "Once upon a time, there was a woman who discovered she had turned into the wrong person. " The woman in question is Rebecca Davitch, a 53-year-old widow, mother, grandmother, and proprietor of a party and catering business run from her home called Open Arms.
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- Bookseller
- Revere Books, ABAA & IOBA
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 120167
- Title
- BACK WHEN WE WERE GROWNUPS
- Author
- Tyler, Anne
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Fine
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- ISBN 10
- 0375412530
- ISBN 13
- 9780375412530
- Publisher
- Knopf
- Place of Publication
- NY
- Date Published
- 2001
- Size
- 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall
- Keywords
- Signed First Edition
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About the Seller
Revere Books, ABAA & IOBA
Biblio member since 2005
Fernandina Beach, Florida
About Revere Books, ABAA & IOBA
Revere Books has offered collector-condition first editions primarily of 20th century American and British fiction and poetry since 1991. Signed copies are a specialty. Member, Antiquarian Booksellers Association of America (ABAA) & the Independent Online Booksellers Association (IOBA).
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