Riddley Walker: Expanded Edition
by HOBAN, Russell
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- Fine
- Signed
- Condition
- Fine/fine
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New York, New York, United States
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About This Item
Norwalk: Easton Press, 2010. Limited. hardcover. fine/fine. Some illustrations. 235 pages. 8vo, full red leather with gilt lettering and cover designs, gilt page edges, peach silk moire endpapers. Norwalk, Connecticut: Easton Press, (2010). Signed by Hoban on a preliminary page. A fine copy.<br/> <br/> Contains a personalizable Bookplate sticker, a publisher's note, and a Certificate of Authenticity signed by the author, the publisher and a witness.<br/> <br/>
Synopsis
Riddley Walker is a novel by Russell Hoban, first published in 1980. It is generally regarded as science fiction, and won the John W. Campbell Memorial Award for best science fiction novel in 1982, as well as an Australian Science Fiction Achievement Award in 1983. It was additionally nominated for the Nebula Award for Best Novel in 1981. Hoban began writing the novel in 1974, inspired by the medieval wall painting of the legend of Saint Eustace at Canterbury Cathedral.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Argosy Book Store (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 316432
- Title
- Riddley Walker: Expanded Edition
- Author
- HOBAN, Russell
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine
- Jacket Condition
- fine
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- Limited
- Publisher
- Easton Press
- Place of Publication
- Norwalk
- Date Published
- 2010
- Keywords
- post-apocalyptic, science fiction novels
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