The Meadow
by Galvin, James
- Used
- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- Very Good in Good dust jacket
- ISBN 10
- 0805016848
- ISBN 13
- 9780805016840
- Seller
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Iowa City, Iowa, United States
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About This Item
New York: Henry Holt and Company, 1992. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. Very Good in Good dust jacket. Signed by the author, without date or inscription, at the title page. Clean and bright; binding square and secure; brown quarter cloth is softened at the spine ends, red paper boards lightly rubbed at corners. Dustjacket is sunned along the spine and bears several short edge tears tears around spine ends, a short open tear at the top right rear, some open chipping at corners, a crease along the top rear, and a thin line of scuffing along the front foreedge, otherwise sound, now protected in a clear sleeve. 230pp. "I thought of Lyle's empty kitchen up there some midwinter night: no light, no fire, rooms colder than the outside air, cold moonlight on the cold iron of the Majesty kitchen stove - no one looking out the window at the meadow, luminous in her snowy bed...." Course it took a poet to write this. Course it did.; Signed by Author.
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- Bookseller
- The Haunted Bookshop, LLC (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 00082284
- Title
- The Meadow
- Author
- Galvin, James
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good in Good dust jacket
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition; First Printing
- ISBN 10
- 0805016848
- ISBN 13
- 9780805016840
- Publisher
- Henry Holt and Company
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1992
- Bookseller catalogs
- Signed by Author;
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About the Seller
The Haunted Bookshop, LLC
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Iowa City, Iowa
About The Haunted Bookshop, LLC
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