History of the World in 10 1/2 Chapters (Signed 1st)
by Barnes, Julian
- Used
- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- Collectable - Good Condition/Good
- ISBN 10
- 0224026690
- ISBN 13
- 9780224026697
- Seller
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Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, United Kingdom
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About This Item
Synopsis
Julian Barnes was born in Leicester in 1946 and educated in London and Oxford. He worked as a lexicographer on the Oxford English Dictionary, then as a journalist for the New Statesman, the Sunday Times and the Observer. He is the author of eight novels, a collection of essays, a book of short stories, and is the first Englishman to have won both the Prix Medicis and the Prix Femina. In 1988 he was made a Chevalier and in 1995 he became an Officier de L'Ordre des Arts et des Lettres.
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Details
- Bookseller
- 84 Charing Cross Road Books, IOBA (GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 092209
- Title
- History of the World in 10 1/2 Chapters (Signed 1st)
- Author
- Barnes, Julian
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Collectable - Good Condition
- Jacket Condition
- Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- ISBN 10
- 0224026690
- ISBN 13
- 9780224026697
- Publisher
- Jonathan Cape
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1989
- Keywords
- BZDB14 Fiction; History of the World in 10 12 Chapters Signed 1st Barnes Julian
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