First edition. Hardcover. First printing. Pouncey's first book, a novel with blurbs by Frank McCourt, Shirley Hazzard, Ward Just, Louis Begley, Norman Mailer, and W.S. Merwin. A very near fine copy in a very near fine dust jacket. Signed and inscribed by Pouncey on the title page to author Shirley Hazzard. A nice association copy.

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T�tulo

Rules for Old Men Waiting (Signed First Edition)

Editor

Random House, New York

Fecha de publicaci�n

2005

Idioma

Ingl�s

ISBN 10

1400063701

ISBN 13

9781400063703

Encuadernaci�n

Encuadernaci�n de tapa dura

Edici�n

1� Edici�n

Estado de la sobrecubierta

Sobrecubierta no Incluida

Firmado

Firmado por el autor

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Retired to his home of Cape Cod, Robert MacIver, a Scottish former professor of history and rugby player who had commanded a destroyer in the British Navy during World War II, creates a list of rules by which he will live out his final days and come to terms with his memories, good and bad, of his life. A first novel. 40,000 first printing.

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Peter Pouncey was born in Tsingtao, China, of English parents. At the end of World War II, after several dislocations and separations, the family reassembled in England, and Pouncey was educated there in boarding schools and at Oxford. A classicist, former dean of Columbia College, and president emeritus of Amherst College, Peter Pouncey lives in New York City and northern Connecticut with his wife. This is his first novel.

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