AN AFGHANISTAN PICTURE SHOW, or How I Saved the World.
by Vollmann, William
- Used
- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- Very near fine in a like dustjacket (appears unread)/like
- ISBN 10
- 0374101051
- ISBN 13
- 9780374101053
- Seller
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Ione, California, United States
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About This Item
New York:: Farrar, Straus & Giroux,, (1992). SIGNED hardcover first edition -. Very near fine in a like dustjacket (appears unread). First printing. His first non-fiction book, an account not only of events in Afghanistan in 1982, but also of his coming to terms with himself and his limitations. SIGNED on the title page by the author. Illustrated with drawings and maps by the author. While Vollmann, one of the most fascinating and interesting of modern writers, had long been a cult favorite, in 2005 he received the prestigious National Book Award for fiction. 268 pp.
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- Bookseller
- Bookfever.com, IOBA (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 58591
- Title
- AN AFGHANISTAN PICTURE SHOW, or How I Saved the World.
- Author
- Vollmann, William
- Format/Binding
- SIGNED hardcover first edition -
- Book Condition
- Used - Very near fine in a like dustjacket (appears unread)
- Jacket Condition
- like
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 0374101051
- ISBN 13
- 9780374101053
- Publisher
- Farrar, Straus & Giroux,
- Place of Publication
- New York:
- Date Published
- (1992)
- Keywords
- journalism, guerrilla war, middle east, pakistan, central asia,
- Bookseller catalogs
- Travel and Exploration;
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