Jasmine
by Mukherjee, Bharati
- Used
- Fine
- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- Fine/Fine
- Seller
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Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States
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About This Item
New York: Grove Weidenfeld, 1989. Book. Fine. Hardcover. Inscribed by Author(s). 1st Edition. First Edition, First Printing. Octavo, brown cloth spine with gilt titles over teal paper covered boards. 241 pp. The author is a winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award for her short fiction. This volume BOLDLY SIGNED AND INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR ON HALF-TITLE "To D______, Best Wishes, Bharati Mukherjee". A beautiful collector's volume. The book is clean, bright, fresh, unmarked and apparently unread, and the dust jacket is very tight, sharp, glossy and unclipped. Fine in fine dust jacket..
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- Bookseller
- Brillig Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 10133
- Title
- Jasmine
- Author
- Mukherjee, Bharati
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Fine
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Publisher
- Grove Weidenfeld
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1989
- Keywords
- JASMINE, MUKHERJEE, INDIA, INDIAN, WOMAN, WOMEN, AMERICA, AMERICAN, IMMIGRANT, IOWA, NATIONAL BOOK CRICICS CIRCLE AWARD, WINNER, WINNING, PRIZE, CULTURE, CULTURAL, FIRST, MODERN, EDITION, FIRST INSCRIBED, SIGNED, ADOPTION, CHILD, VIETNAMESE, REFUGEE, IOWA
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About the Seller
Brillig Books
Biblio member since 2006
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
About Brillig Books
An independent bookseller of uncommon, out-of-print, used and rare books since 1991.
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- Gilt
- The decorative application of gold or gold coloring to a portion of a book on the spine, edges of the text block, or an inlay in...
- Jacket
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- Inscribed
- When a book is described as being inscribed, it indicates that a short note written by the author or a previous owner has been...
- Fine
- A book in fine condition exhibits no flaws. A fine condition book closely approaches As New condition, but may lack the...
- Cloth
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- Octavo
- Another of the terms referring to page or book size, octavo refers to a standard printer's sheet folded four times, producing...
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- Spine
- The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....
- First Edition
- In book collecting, the first edition is the earliest published form of a book. A book may have more than one first edition in...
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