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Black Tickets
de Jayne Anne Phillips
- Usado
- Aceptable
- Tapa dura
- First
- Estado
- Aceptable/Near Fine
- Librería
-
BATH, Somerset, United Kingdom
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Sobre este artículo
London: Allen Lane, 1980 . First edition. Cloth. Fine/Near Fine. 9" by 5.5". None. A fine, first UK edition of the debut novel of Jayne Anne Phillips, in the original dust wrapper. First UK edition, published the year after the US edition. Bound in the publisher's original smart brown cloth, with the original, price-clipped dust wrapper.Written by American novelist and short story writer, Jayne Anne Phillips.'Black Tickets' is a collection of short stories, with a variety of themes including passion, dreams and loneliness. The collection is comprised of twenty-seven stories, with the title story depicting a man yearning for a young woman from his jail cell. In the publisher's original cloth binding with the original, price-clipped dust wrapper. Externally, lovely, with minor shelf wear only. Dust wrapper is also excellent, with minor shelf wear and a price sticker to the front fly leaf. Internally, firmly bound. Pages very bright and clean. Fine
Sinopsis
Jayne Anne Phillips was born in Buckhannon, West Virginia. She is the author of three novels, MotherKind (2000), Shelter (1994) and Machine Dreams (1984 ) , and two collections of widely anthologized stories, Fast Lanes (1987) and Black Tickets (1979) . She is the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship, two National Endowment for the Arts Fellowships, and a Bunting Fellowship. She has been awarded the Sue Kaufman Prize for First Fiction (1980) and an Academy Award in Literature (1997) by the American Academy of Arts and Letters. Her work has been translated into twelve languages, and has appeared in Granta, Harper’s, DoubleTake, and The Norton Anthology of Contemporary Fiction . She is currently Professor of English and Director of the MFA Program at Rutgers-Newark, the State University of New Jersey. Her new novel, Lark and Termite , is forthcoming from Knopf.
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Detalles
- Librería
- Rooke Books
(GB)
- Inventario del vendedor #
- 890Q37
- Título
- Black Tickets
- Autor
- Jayne Anne Phillips
- Ilustrador
- None
- Formato/Encuadernación
- Cloth
- Estado del libro
- Usado - Aceptable
- Estado de la sobrecubierta
- Near Fine
- Cantidad disponible
- 1
- Edición
- First edition
- Encuadernación
- Tapa dura
- Editorial
- Allen Lane
- Lugar de publicación
- London
- Fecha de publicación
- 1980
- Tamaño
- 9" by 5.5"
- Palabras clave
- first edition Jayne Anne Phillips dust wrapper fiction Jayne Anne Phillips
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Sobre el vendedor
Rooke Books
Miembro de Biblio desde 2007
BATH, Somerset
Sobre Rooke Books
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We are a small team dedicated to bringing you very scarce books at reasonable prices. We specialise in rare and hard to come by works on all subjects over the last 500 years, together with modern first editions and decorative sets and bindings. Our library has something for every interest and specialism. We deliver worldwide using a fully tracked and insured courier delivery service.
Where are We?
Based in the literary city of Bath, our offices are housed in the Eastern Dispensary. Built in 1845, the building originally existed as a charitable institution providing medical care. The building now houses our collection of over twenty thousand books and has five full time members of staff.
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