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Setting Free the Bears

Setting Free the Bears

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Setting Free the Bears

by Irving, John

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  • Hardcover
  • first
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Near fine in a very good, price-clipped dust jacket. Binding shows a few tiny extremity bumps. Jacket has a closed 1 1/4" e
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New York: Random House, 1968. First printing. Hardcover. Octavo. [viii], 335 pages. Near fine in a very good, price-clipped dust jacket. Binding shows a few tiny extremity bumps. Jacket has a closed 1 1/4" edge tear at bottom of rear panel, with a bit of associated wrinkling. This tear was taped from backside by prior owner. Clean, sound, and attractive copy overall.. Irving's debut novel, whose plot revolves around a pair of motorcycle-riding youths and their plan to free the animals in Vienna's Heitzinger Zoo.

Synopsis

This is about the novel; for the organization, see Free the Bears Fund. Setting Free the Bears is the first novel by American author John Irving, published in 1968 by Random House. Irving studied at the Institute of European Studies in Vienna in 1963 and Bears was written between 1965 and 1967 based largely on Irving’s understanding of the city and its rebellious youth of the sixties.

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Bookseller
Back Creek Books LLC, ABAA/ILAB US (US)
Bookseller's Inventory #
1513
Title
Setting Free the Bears
Author
Irving, John
Format/Binding
Hardcover. Octavo. [viii], 335 pages
Book Condition
Used - Near fine in a very good, price-clipped dust jacket. Binding shows a few tiny extremity bumps. Jacket has a closed 1 1/4" e
Quantity Available
1
Edition
First printing
Binding
Hardcover
Publisher
Random House
Place of Publication
New York
Date Published
1968
Keywords
vienna, first novels, first books, zoo animals, modern firsts, motorcycles, first editions
Bookseller catalogs
Fiction & Literature;

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About Back Creek Books LLC, ABAA/ILAB

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