Setting Free the Bears
by Irving, John
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- 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
- Seller
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Annapolis, Maryland, United States
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About This Item
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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Details
- Bookseller
- Back Creek Books LLC, ABAA/ILAB (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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- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Fine
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- Bumps
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- Octavo
- Another of the terms referring to page or book size, octavo refers to a standard printer's sheet folded four times, producing...