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Continent
by Crace, Jim
- Used
- near fine
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Near Fine/Very Good+
- Seller
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Madison, Wisconsin, United States
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About This Item
New York: Farrar, Straus And Giroux [1987], 1987. First American edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good+. 8vo. [8], 3-138 pp. Yellow cloth with red lettering on the spine. Price of $14.95 on front jacket flap. The author's first novel. A Near Fine book with a hint of wear to the boards and faint foxing to the textblock; dust jacket is Very Good+ with a bit of edge wear.
Synopsis
Jim Crace is the author of eight previous novels. Being Dead was shortlisted for the Whitbread Prize and won the prestigious National Book Critics Circle Award for Fiction in 2000. In 1997, Quarantine was named the Whitbread Novel of the Year and was shortlisted for the Booker Prize. Crace has also received the Whitbread First Novel Award, the E.M. Foster Award, and the Guardian Award. He lives in Birmingham, England with his wife and two children.
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- Bookseller
- Evening Star Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 00001868
- Title
- Continent
- Author
- Crace, Jim
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Near Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good+
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First American edition
- Publisher
- Farrar, Straus And Giroux [1987]
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1987
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Evening Star Books
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