New York: Alfred A Knopf 1977, 1977. First Edition. 8vo. pp. 200. Original white cloth-backed green-papered boards, spine lettered in gold, title blocked blind to upper board, top edge dyed blue. Original colour pictorial dust-jacket designed by Fred Mardellino. Both boards very lightly sunned to top and bottom edges. Dust jacket evenly soiled, price sticker attached, one very small close tear. First Edition of the Pulitzer Prize-winning author's first-person account of the journey of a woman held hostage by a bank robber on the run. Winner of the 1977 American Academy award. A near fine copy in a near fine dust-jacket.

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Anne Tyler is the bestselling author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, Breathing Lessons , and many other acclaimed works of fiction. Her stories have appeared in The New Yorker, The Saturday Evening Post , and Harper's . She lives in Baltimore, Maryland, with her husband and two children.

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Bookseller: Voewood Rare Books (GB)
Bookseller's Inventory #: 1865
Title: Earthly Possessions.
Author: TYLER, Anne
Book Condition: Used
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: New York: Alfred A Knopf 1977
Date Published: 1977

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Simon Finch has been a Rare Book Dealer since 1980. He has had shops in Notting Hill Gate, Mayfair and Holt, Norfolk. His firm has handled a wide variety of material from the First Folio of Shakespeare to the wilder shores of the counterculture and everything in between. In 1998, Simon bought Voewood, one of the finest Arts and Crafts and houses and brought it back to life with an eight-year programme of renovation and restoration. Voewood Rare Books, which operates from Voewood, is the continuation for Simon of a long career in the book trade. It also represents an important link with the House. Voewood is always beautiful, surprising, mysterious and perhaps a little disorientating and we aim to bring something of this spirit to the bookshop. Whilst our focus in on the visual arts, literature and the counter-culture, we deal also in a broad range of antiquarian and modern rare books across all subject areas. Our collection can be found here at Biblio and on our website. We are open by appointment and can always be contacted by email.

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