A Year at the Races: Reflections on Horses, Humans, Love, Money and Luck
by Smiley, Jane
- Used
- near fine
- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- Near fine/near fine
- ISBN 10
- 1400040582
- ISBN 13
- 9781400040582
- Seller
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Livingston, Montana, United States
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About This Item
New York: Knopf, 2004. First edition. Hardcover. Near fine/near fine. Octavo (22cm), pp. 287. Red boards with brown quarter cloth binding and silver lettering on spine, deckle edge. Signed by author on title page.
Synopsis
Jane Smiley is the author of numerous novels, including, most recently, Good Faith, as well as a critically acclaimed biography of Charles Dickens. She is the recipient of a Pulitzer Prize and was inducted into the American Academy of Arts and Letters in 2001. Smiley owns several horses and lives in Northern California. From the Hardcover edition.
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- Bookseller
- Elk River Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 11042
- Title
- A Year at the Races: Reflections on Horses, Humans, Love, Money and Luck
- Author
- Smiley, Jane
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Near fine
- Jacket Condition
- near fine
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First edition
- ISBN 10
- 1400040582
- ISBN 13
- 9781400040582
- Publisher
- Knopf
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 2004
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- Octavo
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- Deckle edge
- Deckle edge is the feathered edge of a page. Traditionally and historically, this was a side effect of the process of making...