AT THE BOTTOM OF THE RIVER
by Kincaid, Jamaica
- Used
- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- Near fine in a fine dustjacket (embossed seal of prev owner.) /fine
- ISBN 10
- 0374106606
- ISBN 13
- 9780374106607
- Seller
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Ione, California, United States
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About This Item
New York:: Farrar, Straus & Giroux,, 1983.. SIGNED hardcover first edition -. Near fine in a fine dustjacket (embossed seal of prev owner.) . First printing. Her highly praised first book, a collection of 10 short pieces by this Antiguan writer who first came to the US to work as an au pair, and who wound up writing for the New Yorker. While these are described as memories of a childhood in the Caribbean, there is nothing sentimental about them. SIGNED on the title page by Kincaid. Praise from Derek Walcott on the back cover of the dust jacket.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Bookfever.com, IOBA (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 53393
- Title
- AT THE BOTTOM OF THE RIVER
- Author
- Kincaid, Jamaica
- Format/Binding
- SIGNED hardcover first edition -
- Book Condition
- Used - Near fine in a fine dustjacket (embossed seal of prev owner.)
- Jacket Condition
- fine
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 0374106606
- ISBN 13
- 9780374106607
- Publisher
- Farrar, Straus & Giroux,
- Place of Publication
- New York:
- Date Published
- 1983.
- Keywords
- antigua, first book, african american,
- Bookseller catalogs
- Caribbean literature and history;
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