STARS AND BARS.
by BOYD, William, 1952- :
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- See description
- Seller
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London, United Kingdom
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About This Item
London : Hamish Hamilton, (1984). First edition. Henderson Dores - shy, English, self-conscious and nearly forty - stands worrying in the middle of Park Avenue, New York City. Demy 8vo (23cm). (256)pp. Original blue boards, blocked and lettered in gilt; text a touch tanned as usual, but a very good copy in the Lyn Duncombe dust-jacket - price-clipped but also very good.
Synopsis
William Boyd’s first novel, A Good Man in Africa , won a Whitbread Prize and a Somerset Maugham Award; his second, An Ice-Cream War , was awarded the John Llewellyn Rhys Prize and was shortlisted for the Booker Prize; Brazzaville Beach won the James Tait Black Memorial Prize; and The Blue Afternoon won the Los Angeles Times Prize for Fiction. Boyd lives in London.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Ash Rare Books (GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 44053
- Title
- STARS AND BARS.
- Author
- BOYD, William, 1952- :
- Illustrator
- Lyn Duncombe
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- London : Hamish Hamilton, (1984).
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- English Literature, Fiction
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