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The Piano Tuner: A Novel
by MASON, DANIEL
- Used
- Good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Good/Good
- ISBN 10
- 0375414657
- ISBN 13
- 9780375414657
- Seller
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About This Item
USA: Alfred A Knopf Inc, 2002. First Edition. Hardcover. Good/Good. 8vo - over 7?" - 9?" tall. Type: Hardback First Edition Hardcover Book and Jacket in Good Condition. Tan half cloth with copper titles, gold paper-wrapped boards, clean and unmarked, corners bumped, edges rubbed and with tiny indentations, spine head and heel cloth lightly wrinkled. Binding is tight & solid, square. Deckle edges, Pages in Fine Condition. . Lovely jacket in golds and browns with a scenic illustration of Burma (now Myanmar) is clean, light wear to all corners. The story of a British piano tuner who is sent by the British War Office into Burma with a piano, in the nineteenth century. An unforgettable, adventurous, unusual novel. 318 pages. 9.6 x 6.5 inches. 2002 , Alfred A Knopf Inc., USA
Synopsis
Daniel Mason received his bachelor's degree in biology from Harvard in 1998 and spent a year studying malaria on the Thai and Myanmar border, where much of The Piano Tuner was written. He is currently a medical student at the University of California, San Francisco.
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- Bookseller
- The Parnassus BookShop
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 027925
- Title
- The Piano Tuner: A Novel
- Author
- MASON, DANIEL
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Jacket Condition
- Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- ISBN 10
- 0375414657
- ISBN 13
- 9780375414657
- Publisher
- Alfred A Knopf Inc
- Place of Publication
- USA
- Date Published
- 2002
- Size
- 8vo - over 7?" - 9?" t
- Keywords
- BURMA PIANO TECHNICIANS BRITISH WAR OFFICE,
- X weight
- 0 oz
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