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The MasterHarper of Pern
by McCaffrey, Anne
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Fine Condition/Fine
- ISBN 10
- 0593037766
- ISBN 13
- 9780593037768
- Seller
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About This Item
Bantam Press, London, 1998. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine Condition/Fine. Second impression of the First Edition. Size: Octavo 8vo (standard book size). 396 pages. Text body is clean, and free from previous owner annotation, underlining and highlighting. Binding is tight, covers and spine fully intact. No foxing in this copy. Dust Jacket is in as new condition, apart from normal shop shelf wear - contains no tears or chips or other damage. Dust Jacket un-clipped. All edges clean, neat and free of foxing. This book is currently IN STOCK and would be shipped directly from our Australian address.. Anne McCaffrey was one of the world's leading science-fiction writers, and has won both the Hugo and Nebula awards as well as the Margaret A. Edwards' Lifetime Achievement Literary Award. Born and raised in the US, although of Irish extraction, she lived in Ireland, in the heart of the Wicklow Mountains, where, as well as writing, she bred horses. She was the creator of the Dragons of Pern series. She died in November 2011. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilogram. Category: Science & Technology; ISBN: 0593037766. ISBN/EAN: 9780593037768. Pictures of this item not already displayed here available upon request. Inventory No: 3756. . 9780593037768
Synopsis
Anne McCaffrey is one of the world's most popular authors. Her first novel was published in l967. Since then, she has written dozens of books, of which there are more than twelve million copies in print. Before her success as a writer, she was involved in theater. She directed the American premiere of Carl Orff's Ludus de Nato Infante Mirificus in which she also played a witch. McCaffrey lives in County Wicklow, Ireland, in a house of her own design, Dragonhold-Underhill, so named because she had to dig out a hill to build it.
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- Bookseller
- Great Southern Books
(AU)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 3756
- Title
- The MasterHarper of Pern
- Author
- McCaffrey, Anne
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine Condition
- Jacket Condition
- Fine
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- ISBN 10
- 0593037766
- ISBN 13
- 9780593037768
- Publisher
- Bantam Press
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1998
- Keywords
- BZDB137 science fiction, pern anne mccaffrey, dragons, Science & Technology; ISBN: 0593037766 EAN: 9780593037768 McCaffrey, Anne The MasterHarper of Pern
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