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Marya: A Life
by Oates, Joyce Carol
- Used
- Fine
- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- Fine
- Seller
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Woodlawn, Illinois, United States
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About This Item
Franklin Center, Pennsylvania: Franklin Library, 1986. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Maffia, Daniel. Stated Limited First Edition. Signed By The Author On Tipped In Page. The Book Is Bound In Brown Leather With Gilt Lettering And Decoration. Four Raised Bands. All Edges Gilt. Bound In Marker Ribbon. Marbled Endpapers.
Synopsis
In addition to many prize-winning and bestselling novels, including We Were the Mulvaneys, Black Water , and Because It Is Bitter and Because It Is My Heart (available in Plume editions), Joyce Carol Oates is the author of a number of works of gothic fiction including Haunted: Tales of the Grotesque (Plume), a 1995 World Fantasy Award nominee; and Zombie (Plume), winner of the 1996 Bram Stoker Award for Best Horror Novel, awarded by the Horror Writers' Association. In 1994, Oates received the Bram Stoker Lifetime Achievement Award in Horror Fiction. She is the editor of American Gothic Tales and her latest novel is Broke Heart Blues (Dutton). She lives in Princeton, New Jersey.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Granada Bookstore (Member IOBA)
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 033509
- Title
- Marya: A Life
- Author
- Oates, Joyce Carol
- Illustrator
- Maffia, Daniel
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 1st Edition 1st Printing
- Publisher
- Franklin Library
- Place of Publication
- Franklin Center, Pennsylvania
- Date Published
- 1986
- Pages
- 310
- Size
- 8vo - over 7¾" - 9&f
- Keywords
- Women Intellectuals - Fiction; Young Women - Fiction; Orphans - Fiction. Psychological
Terms of Sale
Granada Bookstore (Member IOBA)
30 day return guarantee, with full refund including original shipping costs for up to 30 days after delivery if an item arrives misdescribed or damaged.
About the Seller
Granada Bookstore (Member IOBA)
Biblio member since 2013
Woodlawn, Illinois
About Granada Bookstore (Member IOBA)
I have a small inventory of about 23,000 titles. I sell from my own property and only on-line. I started selling on line in 1999. This is my Fourth year with Biblio.
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- First Edition
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- Gilt
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- Raised Band(s)
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- Fine
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