A Summons to Memphis
by Taylor, Peter
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/Good
- ISBN 10
- 0701131993
- ISBN 13
- 9780701131999
- Seller
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Liphook, Hampshire, United Kingdom
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About This Item
Chatto & Windus, 1987. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Very Good/Good. This first edition is in very good condition with a good unclipped dust jacket (sunning to spine). Tanning strip and ex libris sticker and inscription present on the front end paper. Otherwise a very good clean copy.
Synopsis
A Summons to Memphis is a 1986 novel by Peter Taylor which won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1987. It is the recollection of Phillip Carver, a middle aged editor from New York City, who is summoned back to Memphis by his two conniving unmarried sisters to help them prevent the marriage of their elderly father to a younger woman.
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- Bookseller
- Our Kind of Books (GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 652-67
- Title
- A Summons to Memphis
- Author
- Taylor, Peter
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- ISBN 10
- 0701131993
- ISBN 13
- 9780701131999
- Publisher
- Chatto & Windus
- Place of Publication
- London:
- Date Published
- 1987
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- Jacket
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- First Edition
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