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Imaginary Friend
by Stephen Chbosky
- Used
- Fine
- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- Fine/Fine
- ISBN 10
- 153871776X
- ISBN 13
- 9781538717769
- Seller
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Carrollton, Texas, United States
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About This Item
New York: Grand Central Publishing, 2019. SIGNED. 1st/1st. New. Stated First Edition. First printing with complete 10 number line ending in 1. Signed by Stephen Chbosky on publisher's bound-in page. The book is tight and square with solid hinges, sharp tips, and clean unmarred boards. Textblock is clean with no writing, bookplate, or markings and not BCE, ex-library, or remaindered. Dust jacket is unclipped ($30.00) and Fine. Protected in a Brodart Mylar cover. A young boy is haunted by a voice in his head in this acclaimed epic of literary horror from the author of The Perks of Being a Wallflower.
Imaginary Friend features a 7-year-old protagonist, Christopher, whose mother has fled an abusive partner and moved with her son to a small town in Pennsylvania. Heartbreakingly mundane concerns of poverty, bullying and fears of the violent ex finding them soon give way to a fantastic evil as Christopher begins to converse with "the nice man" who disguises himself as a plastic bag and warns about a malevolent "hissing lady." Christopher goes missing for six days, and when he inexplicably reappears the coincidences roll in thick and fast — his mother wins the lottery; Christopher's learning difficulties disappear. This isn't so much coincidence as fate; somebody evil holds the strings. It is left to Christopher to confront these terrors.
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- Bookseller
- Armadillo Alley Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 3089
- Title
- Imaginary Friend
- Author
- Stephen Chbosky
- Format/Binding
- Cloth
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Fine
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition / First Printing
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 153871776X
- ISBN 13
- 9781538717769
- Publisher
- Grand Central Publishing
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 2019
- Keywords
- Horror, thriller
- Bookseller catalogs
- First Editions; Signed Books;
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About the Seller
Armadillo Alley Books
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Carrollton, Texas
About Armadillo Alley Books
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- New
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- Fine
- A book in fine condition exhibits no flaws. A fine condition book closely approaches As New condition, but may lack the...
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- Bookplate
- Highly sought after by some collectors, a book plate is an inscribed or decorative device that identifies the owner, or former...
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