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The Picador Book Of Contemporary Irish Fiction
by Bolger., Ed. Dermot
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- F/F/F
- ISBN 10
- 0330326163
- ISBN 13
- 9780330326162
- Seller
-
Salisbury, Wiltshire, United Kingdom
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About This Item
HARDBACK,? SHIPPED FROM THE UK* Edn: 1st. Thus.* Imp: 1st. Full number line.* Date of Publication: 1999* Publisher: BCA from Macmillan.* Binding and cover condition: Glossy laminated photo-illustrated boards, White titles to spine & face on dark green ground. No bumps or rubs, absolutely minimal shelf wear to edges. FINE* Jacket condition: Matching illustrated dust wrapper. NOT PRICE CLIPPED, showing a shelf price of £14.99. Absolutely minimal shelf wear to head of spine and to top edges. Now in clear protective wrapper. FINE* Contents condition: PRIVATE COPY NOT EX-LIBRARY. Coloured end papers (cream). Clean, crisp, tight and bright with no reading wear, no marks to text, top-edge slightly dusty, otherwise no visible faults. FINE.* Illustrations: None.* Pages: 508 pp. text. xi pp., biographical notes, acknowledgements & blank pages at rear.* Description: This volume features fiction published since 1970. Arranged in chronological order, the volume moves from the traditional to the futuristic. Authors featured include Samuel Beckett, Sean O'Faolain, Mary Lavin, Patrick McCabe, Edna O'Brien, John Banville and Francis Stuart. There is a lovely black and white photograph of Marilyn Monroe on the front cover. (Ironically it is of her reading James Joyce? Ulysses which was written long before the 1968 watershed which applies to contents of this volume).* A FINE text copy of the 1st/1st thus fnl. in a FINE protected dust jacket.* Bolger, Dermot
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- Bookseller
- Cocksparrow Books
(GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 2541
- Title
- The Picador Book Of Contemporary Irish Fiction
- Author
- Bolger., Ed. Dermot
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - F/F/F
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 1st. Edn. Thus 1st. Imp. FNL.
- ISBN 10
- 0330326163
- ISBN 13
- 9780330326162
- Publisher
- Picador
- Place of Publication
- Haydock, St. Helens. 519
- Date Published
- 1999-01-01
- Size
- 13.5 x 4.3 x 21.6 cm
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