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PEOPLE OF THE BOOK.
Edition: Trade paperback.
New York: The Viking Press, (2008.). Imaginative novel by this Pulitzer prize winning author, which alternates between the present - 1996 where "a rare book expert is offered the job of analysis and conservation of a mysterious, beautifully illuminated Hebrew manuscript created in fifteenth-century Spain and recently saved from destruction during the shelling of Sarajevo's libraries" - and through the past as the lives of all those who handled the book are revealed. Afterword. 372 pp. ISBN: 0-670-01821X.
Condition: Very near fine in glossy illustrated wrappers.
Book ID: 46566More details Price: $12.00 -
PEOPLE OF THE BOOK.
Edition: First printing.
New York: The Viking Press, (2008.) dj. Hardcover first edition - Imaginative novel by this Pulitzer prize winning author, which alternates between the present - 1996 where "a rare book expert is offered the job of analysis and conservation of a mysterious, beautifully illuminated Hebrew manuscript created in fifteenth-century Spain and recently saved from destruction during the shelling of Sarajevo's libraries" - and through the past as the lives of all those who handled the book are revealed. Afterword. 372 pp. Map endpapers. ISBN: 0-670-01821X.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 53535More details Price: $21.00 -
AN ODYSSEY IN PRINT: Adventures in the Smithsonian Libraries.
Edition: First printing.
Condition: Very near fine in a near fine dustjacket. (small nick to bottom edge of front cover of dj and at fold.)
Book ID: 37085More details Price: $60.00