San Francisco: McSweeney's Books. Near Fine with no dust jacket. 2012. First Edition. Hardcover. 193636574X . A stated first printing of the fourth novel by Dave Eggers. In this highly-readable work, the protagonist travels the world in order to earn money that he desperately needs. --- In ornate olive and gold cloth-covered boards with dark blue endpapers. Lacks a dust jacket (likely as issued) but retains its removable original rear panel publisher's sticker. --- An about Near Fine copy: clean, bright and unmarked.; Octavo (8 to 9 in. tall); 312 pages .

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Dave Eggers is the author of six previous books, including Zeitoun , winner of the American Book Award and the Dayton Literary Peace Prize. What Is the What was a finalist for the 2006 National Book Critics Circle Award and won France’s Prix Medici . That book, about Valentino Achak Deng, a survivor of the civil war in Sudan, gave birth to the Valentino Achak Deng Foundation, which operates a secondary school in South Sudan run by Mr. Deng. Eggers is the founder and editor of McSweeney’s, an independent publishing house based in San Francisco that produces a quarterly journal, a monthly magazine, The Believer , and an oral history series, Voice of Witness. In 2002, with Nínive Calegari he co-founded 826 Valencia, a nonprofit writing and tutoring center for youth in the Mission District of San Francisco. Local communities have since opened sister 826 centers in Chicago, Los Angeles, New York, Ann Arbor, Seattle, Boston and Washington, DC, and similar centers now exist in London (the Ministry of Stories), Dublin (Fighting Words) and in Copenhagen, Stockholm, Melbourne, and many other cities. A native of Chicago, Eggers now lives in Northern California with his wife and two children.

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Bookseller: Bluebird Books (US)
Bookseller's Inventory #: 82545
Title: A Hologram for the King
Author: EGGERS, Dave
Format/Binding: Hardcover
Book Condition: Used - Near Fine with no dust jacket
Edition: First Edition
ISBN 10: 193636574X
ISBN 13: 9781936365746
Publisher: McSweeney's Books
Place of Publication: San Francisco
Date Published: 2012
Keywords: 193636574X

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