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If Morning Ever Comes
by Tyler, Anne
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good in Very Good dust jacket
- Seller
-
Fort Wayne, Indiana, United States
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About This Item
New York: Alfred A. Knopf. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. 1964. First Edition. Hardcover; First Printing. Grey board & black cloth binding rubbed at spine ends & corners; top board edges slightly sun-faded; paper over top corner of rear board chipped; small ink numbers at bottom corner of rear paste-down. Dust jacket rubbed & lightly chipped at edges; backstrip slightly yellowed; small nick on fore-edge of front flap; small ink numbers at bottom corner of rear flap, now protected in mylar cover. ; First edition of author's first novel. ; 8vo; 265 pages .
Synopsis
If Morning Ever Comes is American author Anne Tyler's first novel, published when she was only 22. Set in Sandhill, North Carolina, it focuses on Ben Joe Hawkes, a self-proclaimed worrier who finds himself responsible for taking care of his mother and five sisters after his father deserts the family for his mistress and subsequently dies of a heart attack.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Hyde Brothers, Booksellers
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 33925
- Title
- If Morning Ever Comes
- Author
- Tyler, Anne
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover; First Printing
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good in Very Good dust jacket
- Edition
- First Edition
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Alfred A. Knopf
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1964
- Keywords
- 20th Century American Fiction, American Novelists, Pulitzer Prize Winning Author
- Bookseller catalogs
- GC: Fiction;
Terms of Sale
Hyde Brothers, Booksellers
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About the Seller
Hyde Brothers, Booksellers
Biblio member since 2019
Fort Wayne, Indiana
About Hyde Brothers, Booksellers
Open shop with over 125,000 volumes. We try to maintain a good selection in all categories and have a fondness for the odd & obscure. Specialties include History, Nature, Literature, Religion, Mystery, SF, Art, Children's, Humor, Indiana
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- Jacket
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- Cloth
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- Paste-down
- The paste-down is the portion of the endpaper that is glued to the inner boards of a hardback book. The paste-down forms an...
- Edges
- The collective of the top, fore and bottom edges of the text block of the book, being that part of the edges of the pages of a...
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