Stone Virgin.
by UNSWORTH, Barry
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- Fine
- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- Fine/Near Fine
- ISBN 10
- 0395354129
- ISBN 13
- 9780395354124
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About This Item
Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1986. Signed by the author on the title page. First U.S. edition / First printing. Gold cloth spine, ivory paper-covered boards. Fine in near fine jacket. An attractive copy.
Synopsis
BARRY UNSWORTH was born in 1930 in Durham, and now lives in Italy. He is the author of many novels, including Pascali's Island , which was shortlisted for the 1980 Booker Prize; Stone Virgin (1985); Sacred Hunger , which was joint winner of the 1992 Booker Prize; Morality Play , which was shortlisted for the 1995 Booker Prize; Losing Nelson (1999); The Songs of the Kings (2002); The Ruby in Her Navel (2006); Land of Marvels (2009) and The Quality of Mercy .
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- Orpheus Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 10915-1
- Title
- Stone Virgin.
- Author
- UNSWORTH, Barry
- Format/Binding
- Gold cloth spine, ivory paper-covered boards.
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Near Fine
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First U.S. edition / First printing.
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 0395354129
- ISBN 13
- 9780395354124
- Publisher
- Houghton Mifflin Company,
- Place of Publication
- Boston:
- Date Published
- 1986.
- Bookseller catalogs
- Fiction;
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