stranger novel big (3 resultados)

Hardcover. Condición: Very Good. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Good Jacket. early edition . Nice Jacketed G&D reprint. Tan hardcover cloth appears fresh with some light wear to extremes and a small stain rear cover. No internal names or marking. Jacket is Good or Better with NO price clip. Light loss at spine ends and some light edgewear and rubbing at the seams. . Really a nice looking jacketed hardcover. Uncommon in any hardcover edition. -Quality Counts! All books shipped in Cardboard and all books with dust jackets have mylar jacket protectors.,

This hardcover edition is in good condition, though it lacks a dust jacket. The spine and cover show minor wear consistent with age, including slight fraying at the spine's top. The binding is intact, and the pages are clean with no inscriptions or library marks. The endpapers feature a map of the Big Sur region, adding a unique visual element to the book.

Hardcover. Condición: Very Good. First Edition. (no dust jacket) [a good sound copy, moderate wear to extremities, slight fraying at lower corners]. (illustrated endpapers) INSCRIBED and SIGNED by the author on the title page: "To Gertrud Boheen(sp?) / from a happy author / Lillian Bos Ross." (And below that inscription is another, when Ms. Boheen passed the novel along to another: "To Frank E. Brady / from Gertrud." Novel, set in the 1870s, that tells the story of a rugged man of action and his mail-order bride. The author's first novel, it's not only a key work of California fiction, but it also had a profound effect on the life of the writer who would come to be most identified with the Big Sur region, Henry Miller. Miller read the book a few weeks after first coming to the area, and years later he wrote: "Till then I had been only a visitor. The reading of this 'little classic' . made me more than ever determined to take root here." A movie version (retitled ZANDY'S BRIDE), starring Gene Hackman and Liv Ullmann, was released in 1973. (Baird & Greenwood 2136) Signed by Author.