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POSSESSING THE SECRET OF JOY
by Walker, Alice
- Used
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- About fine in fine jacket.
- ISBN 10
- 0151731527
- ISBN 13
- 9780151731527
- Seller
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Silver Spring, Maryland, United States
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About This Item
New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1992. About fine in fine jacket.. Signed first printing of this novel exploring many of the same themes as THE COLOR PURPLE, especially love after trauma and universal sisterhood. 9.25'' x 5.25''. Original quarter orange cloth, grey paper boards, gilt-lettered spine. In original unclipped ($19.95) color pictorial dust jacket designed by Vaughn Andrews with image by David Shannon. Tan endpapers, fore-edge machine deckle. xii, 286 pages. Signed by Walker on title page. Faintest foxing to text block edges, else clean and beautiful.
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- Bookseller
- Type Punch Matrix
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 45946
- Title
- POSSESSING THE SECRET OF JOY
- Author
- Walker, Alice
- Book Condition
- Used - About fine in fine jacket.
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Trade Cloth
- ISBN 10
- 0151731527
- ISBN 13
- 9780151731527
- Publisher
- Harcourt Brace Jovanovich
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1992
- Keywords
- 20th century,Post-WWII,African American author,African American subject,US American,Woman Author
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About the Seller
Type Punch Matrix
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Silver Spring, Maryland
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- Title Page
- A page at the front of a book which may contain the title of the book, any subtitles, the authors, contributors, editors, the...
- Edges
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- Jacket
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- Fine
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- Text Block
- Most simply the inside pages of a book. More precisely, the block of paper formed by the cut and stacked pages of a book....
- Spine
- The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....
- Cloth
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