THE BARRACKS THIEF.
by Wolff, Tobias
- Used
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- Fine in printed terra cotta wrappers. An uncommon advance issue.
- Seller
-
Ione, California, United States
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About This Item
London:: Jonathan Cape,, (1987.). SIGNED first edition -. Fine in printed terra cotta wrappers. An uncommon advance issue.. Uncorrected proof (trade paperback format) for the UK edition. Wolff's second novel (or perhaps more accurately, a novella), a PEN Faulkner award winner, the story of three young paratroopers waiting to be shipped to Vietnam who forge bonds of friendship when they confront a fire near an ammunition dump, only to see those bonds break under the stress of suspicion when there is a series of thefts. SIGNED on the title page, and dated in 1988. 101 pp.
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Details
- Seller
- Bookfever.com, IOBA (US)
- Seller's Inventory #
- 65856
- Title
- THE BARRACKS THIEF.
- Author
- Wolff, Tobias
- Format/Binding
- SIGNED first edition -
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine in printed terra cotta wrappers. An uncommon advance issue.
- Publisher
- Jonathan Cape,
- Place of Publication
- London:
- Date Published
- (1987.)
- Keywords
- vietnam war fiction, pen faulkner award, arc, advance reading copy,
- Bookseller catalogs
- First book or first novel;
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