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The Shawl and Prairie Du Chien: Two Plays
by David Mamet
- Used
- Fine
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Fine/Very Good +
- ISBN 10
- 039455051X
- ISBN 13
- 9780394550510
- Seller
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Orange Park, Florida, United States
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About This Item
New York: Grove Press, 1985. Book. Fine. Cloth. First Edition. First edition, first printing, with "First Grove Press Edition 1985 / First Printing 1985" and full number line beginning with the numeral "1" on copyright page. No remainder mark. First-issue dust jacket with publisher's $15.95 price on front flap. Blue cloth hardcover with gold lettering on spine. 86 text pages. FINE book in VERY GOOD + dust jacket. Book has a small light crease in the cloth at the top edge of the front gutter and is otherwise bright, crisp, clean and unworn, tight and square, with no sunning. Flawless interior with pages appearing unread. No previous owner markings. Dust jacket is very bright and very clean with no sunning. Light wear to the edges all around. Creasing along the top edge of the front panel along with a tiny chip and a tiny closed tear. Rear panel has a small closed tear and light crease at the top edge and a tiny closed tear at the bottom edge. Jacket is protected in a new archival mylar cover..
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- Bookseller
- Odysseus Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 2502
- Title
- The Shawl and Prairie Du Chien: Two Plays
- Author
- David Mamet
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good +
- Edition
- First Edition
- ISBN 10
- 039455051X
- ISBN 13
- 9780394550510
- Publisher
- Grove Press
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1985
- Keywords
- COLLECTIBLE, 1ST EDITION
- Bookseller catalogs
- Literature; First Printings;
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- Fine
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