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Setting Free the Bears
de Irving, John
- Usado
- Tapa dura
- First
- Estado
- Near fine in a very good, price-clipped dust jacket. Binding shows a few tiny extremity bumps. Jacket has a closed 1 1/4" e
- Librería
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Annapolis, Maryland, United States
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Sobre este artículo
New York: Random House, 1968. First printing. Hardcover. Octavo. [viii], 335 pages. Near fine in a very good, price-clipped dust jacket. Binding shows a few tiny extremity bumps. Jacket has a closed 1 1/4" edge tear at bottom of rear panel, with a bit of associated wrinkling. This tear was taped from backside by prior owner. Clean, sound, and attractive copy overall.. Irving's debut novel, whose plot revolves around a pair of motorcycle-riding youths and their plan to free the animals in Vienna's Heitzinger Zoo.
Sinopsis
This is about the novel; for the organization, see Free the Bears Fund. Setting Free the Bears is the first novel by American author John Irving, published in 1968 by Random House. Irving studied at the Institute of European Studies in Vienna in 1963 and Bears was written between 1965 and 1967 based largely on Irving’s understanding of the city and its rebellious youth of the sixties.
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Detalles
- Librería
- Back Creek Books LLC, ABAA/ILAB
(US)
- Inventario del vendedor #
- 1513
- Título
- Setting Free the Bears
- Autor
- Irving, John
- Formato/Encuadernación
- Hardcover. Octavo. [viii], 335 pages
- Estado del libro
- Usado - Near fine in a very good, price-clipped dust jacket. Binding shows a few tiny extremity bumps. Jacket has a closed 1 1/4" e
- Cantidad disponible
- 1
- Edición
- First printing
- Encuadernación
- Tapa dura
- Editorial
- Random House
- Lugar de publicación
- New York
- Fecha de publicación
- 1968
- Palabras clave
- vienna, first novels, first books, zoo animals, modern firsts, motorcycles, first editions
- Catálogos del vendedor
- Fiction & Literature;
Términos de venta
Back Creek Books LLC, ABAA/ILAB
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Sobre el vendedor
Back Creek Books LLC, ABAA/ILAB
Miembro de Biblio desde 2006
Annapolis, Maryland
Sobre Back Creek Books LLC, ABAA/ILAB
We buy and sell quality used and out-of-print books, with an emphasis on Americana, Military and Naval History, and Nautical material. But we have many good books in a variety of subjects. We are located in historic Annapolis, Maryland.
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