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Aunt Julia and the Script Writer
by Llosa, Mario Vargas
- Used
- Good
- first
- Condition
- Good/Good
- Seller
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Dover, New Hampshire, United States
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About This Item
New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1982. First Edition. Cloth. Good/Good. First US edition, first printing. Orange paper covered board with a purple cloth spine. In price clipped jacket. 374 pp. A comedic novel set in 1950s Peru. GOOD+ condition. Jacket faded along the hinges and spine. Minor scuffing. Some curling along the upper jacket extremity, with a few minor tears. Minor fading and edgewear to the book. Light foxing to the fore edge.
Synopsis
Aunt Julia and the Scriptwriter is a novel by Mario Vargas Llosa. It was published by Editorial Seix Barral, S.A. , Spain, in 1977. It is the story of an 18 year old student, Mario, who falls for 32 year old divorcee Aunt Julia. The novel is based on the author's real life experience. Mario (an aspiring writer) works at a radio station that broadcasts, live each day, up to a half-dozen novelas (a close relation to North American soap operas).
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Details
- Bookseller
- Mare Booksellers
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 013977
- Title
- Aunt Julia and the Script Writer
- Author
- Llosa, Mario Vargas
- Format/Binding
- Cloth
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Jacket Condition
- Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- Farrar, Straus and Giroux
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1982
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- Bookseller catalogs
- Literature;
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About the Seller
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Mare Booksellers specializes in punk fanzines, with interests in underground newspapers and art. Who are we kidding? We really like anything with printed or handwritten letters, whether paper, books, etc. (Okay, letters and words aren't really that important either).
Glossary
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- First Edition
- In book collecting, the first edition is the earliest published form of a book. A book may have more than one first edition in...
- Price Clipped
- When a book is described as price-clipped, it indicates that the portion of the dust jacket flap that has the publisher's...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Good+
- A term used to denote a condition a slight grade better than Good.
- Spine
- The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Fore Edge
- The portion of a book that is opposite the spine. That part of a book which faces the wall when shelved in a traditional...
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