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THE BRIDGES OF MADISON COUNTY; Robert James Waller
by Waller, Robert James
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Fine/Very Fine
- ISBN 10
- 044651652X
- ISBN 13
- 9780446516525
- Seller
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Lake Forest, Illinois, United States
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About This Item
New York, N.Y.: Warner Books, 1992. First Edition, First Printing. Cloth and boards. Very Fine/Very Fine. Small 8vo (5 1/4" x 7 ¾"), quarter green cloth with white lettering on spine over beige boards, archival mylar-pictorial dust jacket (unclipped) with postcardlike colored photo of a covered bridge, tan endpapers, 171 pages. EXCEPTIONAL COPY: Solid, tight, bright, clean in a comparable dust jacket (not price-clipped). Number line counts down to "1." Small red date stamp stating "Dec. 1 1998" upper right corner of front free endpaper. The Bridges of Madison County is a 1992 best-selling romance novella by American writer Robert James Waller that tells the story of a married but lonely Italian-American woman living on a 1960s Madison County, Iowa, farm. The book became a film starring Meryl Streep and Clint Eastwood, and was a successful Broadway musical, a Thousand Country Roads. Robert James Waller (1939 - 2017) was an American author best known for The Bridges of Madison County, an enormously successful book in 1993. He was also a photographer and musician.
Synopsis
The Bridges of Madison County is a 1992 best-selling novel by Robert James Waller which tells the story of a married but lonely Italian woman, living in 1960s Madison County, Iowa, who engages in an affair with a National Geographic photographer from Bellingham, Washington who is visiting Madison County in order to create a photographic essay on the covered bridges in the area. The novel is presented as a novelization of a true story, but it is in fact entirely fiction.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Borg Antiquarian
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 5497
- Title
- THE BRIDGES OF MADISON COUNTY; Robert James Waller
- Author
- Waller, Robert James
- Format/Binding
- Cloth and boards
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Very Fine
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition, First Printing
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 044651652X
- ISBN 13
- 9780446516525
- Publisher
- Warner Books
- Place of Publication
- New York, N.Y.
- Date Published
- 1992
- Keywords
- Love, sex, loneliness, widow, rustic, bridges, postcard
Terms of Sale
Borg Antiquarian
30 day return guarantee, with full refund including original shipping costs for up to 30 days after delivery if an item arrives misdescribed or damaged.
About the Seller
Borg Antiquarian
Biblio member since 2015
Lake Forest, Illinois
About Borg Antiquarian
BorgAntiquarian (ABAA & ILAB) is a dealer long engaged in selling exceptional collectibles: rare and fine books, autographs and manuscripts, fine art and artifacts. We are generalists in Americana, English & American literature, plus selected authors & important figures (Dickens & Darwin; presidents & 'signers'; scientists & historical figures; Revolutionary & Civil War militaria).
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- Cloth
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- Tight
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- Spine
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