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The Broken Place.
de Shaara, Michael
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- First
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Palm Beach, Florida, United States
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Sobre este artículo
New York: The New American Library, 1968. First edition of the author's first novel, preceding his Pulitzer Prize-winning work The Killer Angels. Octavo, original cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the second free endpaper in the year of publication, "To Judy + Bill - best wishes - Mike Shaara March 22, 1968." Near fine in a very good dust jacket. Tom McCain, a Korean War vet, returns to his career as a professional prize-fighter where he was known as the Finisher, a boxer with the will and the ability to kill his opponent. The war, however, has change McCain and a search for inner peace leads him from a Southern college campus to the Middle East, and ultimately, to a save confrontation in the ring. "A haunting novel, written with grace and economy, and at a pitch that can be called absolute" (Harvey Breit).
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- Librería
- Raptis Rare Books
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- Inventario del vendedor #
- 138681
- Título
- The Broken Place.
- Autor
- Shaara, Michael
- Estado del libro
- Usado
- Encuadernación
- Tapa dura
- Editorial
- The New American Library
- Lugar de publicación
- New York
- Fecha de publicación
- 1968
- Palabras clave
- Michael Shaara First Edition Signed, The Broken Place First Edition
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Sobre Raptis Rare Books
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- Inscribed
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- First Edition
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- Jacket
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- Fine
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- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Octavo
- Another of the terms referring to page or book size, octavo refers to a standard printer's sheet folded four times, producing...
