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The Stories of John Cheever
by John Cheever
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/Very Good-
- ISBN 10
- 0394500873
- ISBN 13
- 9780394500874
- Seller
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Uncasville, Connecticut, United States
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About This Item
SIGNED: first edition first print hardcover in dust jacket Signed on the front free end paper by John Cheever; no prior owner marks; minimal age tone to text pages, light foxing to end paper edges; tight bind; clean cloth cover, bright gilt titling; dj edge wear: rubbing, small nicks at back top corners; flap price present M72
Synopsis
The Stories of John Cheever is a 1978 short story collection by American author John Cheever. It contains some of his most famous stories, including "The Enormous Radio," "Goodbye, My Brother," "The Country Husband," "The Five-Forty-Eight" and "The Swimmer. " It won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction and the National Book Critics Circle Award in 1979; the paperback version won the American Book Award for Fiction in 1981.
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- Bookseller
- DrPanglossBooks
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 12251
- Title
- The Stories of John Cheever
- Author
- John Cheever
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good-
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- first edition
- ISBN 10
- 0394500873
- ISBN 13
- 9780394500874
- Publisher
- Knopf
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1978
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