GRANTA 19: More Dirt: The New American Fiction (First printing)

Bill Buford, Pete de Bolla (Eds.), Contributors: Richard Ford, Ellen Gilchrist, Louise Erdrich, Jayne Anne Phillips, John Updike, Adam Mars-Jones, Primo Levi et al

ISBN 10: 0140085955 ISBN 13: 9780140085952

Published by Granta / Penguin Books, Harmondsworth, Middlesex, 1986

Language: English

Condition: Used - Near fine Soft cover

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First printing of the first edition. Illustrated with black and white photographs. ***Near fine in colour illustrated card covers. The covers are clean and unmarked, with no obvious faults - just slight rubbing at the edges. No reading lean. No reading creases to spine. Spine tight. Page block edges clean. Covers bright. Internally also near fine, with just a small ink stamp 'please return to Paul Smith' on the title-page. Pages clean. No creases or tears. ***254 pages plus two-page publisher's advert and note on contributors and advert on rear pastedown. 210mm x 144mm. ***Richard Ford, Ellen Gilchrist, Louise Erdrich, Jayne Anne Phillips, John Updike, Adam Mars-Jones, Primo Levi et al. ***Published in Summer 1986 - "The companion volume to ?Dirty Realism? (Granta 8): unillusioned, spare fiction of the belly-side of American life: with Richard Ford, Ellen Gilchrist, Louise Erdrich, Jayne Anne Phillips, and others. Plus: John Updike, Adam Mars-Jones, and Primo Levi." (Quote taken from the Granta website) ***A first printing of an early issue of Granta magazine - now becoming hard to find. ***For all our books, postage is charged at cost, allowing for packaging: any shipping rates indicated on ABE are an average only: we will reduce the P & P charge where appropriate - please contact us for postal rates for heavier books and sets etc.

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GRANTA 19: More Dirt: The New American Fiction (First printing)

Publisher

Granta / Penguin Books, Harmondsworth, Middlesex

Publication Date

1986

Language

English

ISBN 10

0140085955

ISBN 13

9780140085952

Binding

Original Wraps

Edition

First Edition

Condition

Near Fine

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No Jacket, as Issued

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Essays on Northern Ireland, South Africa, and the working lives of two writers accompanying short stories about the lower class in America

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