The Maytrees: A Novel
by Annie Dillard
- Used
- near fine
- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- Near Fine/Near Fine
- ISBN 10
- 0061239534
- ISBN 13
- 9780061239533
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About This Item
White and off-white boards with green writing on spine; very small bump to top corner of back board. Gold sticker with "Signed First Edition" on it on front dust jacket; top of sticker slightly wrinkled. Front and back dust jacket have yellow border that looks like sun-fading, but is way dust jacket was printed; top and bottom of dust jacket spine have very slight shelf wear. Tight binding and pages still look in excellent condition; cover price of $24.95 and 0607 on front dust jacket fold.
Harper Collins First Edition; First Printing as indicated by "FIRST EDITION" and complete number line ending in "1" on copyright page. Signed by author on second interior page.
Dillard's small novel that "intimately depicts nature's vastness and nearness." Hardcover and original unclipped dust jacket protected by archival Mylar cover.
Synopsis
Toby Maytree first sees Lou Bigelow on her bicycle in postwar Provincetown, Massachusetts. Her laughter and loveliness catch his breath. Maytree is a Provincetown native, an educated poet of thirty. As he courts Lou, just out of college, her stillness draws him. Hands-off, he hides his serious wooing, and idly shows her his poems.In spare, elegant prose, Dillard traces the Maytrees' decades of loving and longing. They live cheaply among the nonconformist artists and writers that the bare tip of Cape Cod attracts. Lou takes up painting. When their son Petie appears, their innocent Bohemian friend Deary helps care for him. But years later it is Deary who causes the town to talk.In this moving novel, Dillard intimately depicts nature's vastness and nearness. She presents willed bonds of loyalty, friendship, and abiding love. Warm and hopeful, The Maytrees is the surprising capstone of Annie Dillard's original body of work. 0607
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- Sherlock Joe's Book Hunting (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- DLD003
- Title
- The Maytrees: A Novel
- Author
- Annie Dillard
- Book Condition
- Used - Near Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Near Fine
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 0061239534
- ISBN 13
- 9780061239533
- Publisher
- Harper Collins
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- June 12, 2007
- Pages
- 216
- Keywords
- annie dillard; the maytrees; signed
- Bookseller catalogs
- Fiction; Signed / Inscribed;
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