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THE SHADOW CATCHER
by Wiggins, Marianne
- Used
- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- Very Fine/Fine
- ISBN 10
- 0743265203
- ISBN 13
- 9780743265201
- Seller
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Lake Forest, Illinois, United States
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About This Item
New York, N.Y.: Simon & Schuster, 2007. First Edition, First Printing. Cloth and boards. Very Fine/Fine. Sketches by the Author. ASSOCIATION COPY SIGNED & INSCRIBED by the Author on the title page & facing page (adding a sketch of her book & crossed arrows for "The Four Corners")...as well as on the rear pastedown; tall 8vo, black quarter cloth with gilt lettering on spine over deep blue boards, archival mylar-protected photographic dust jacket (unclipped) with photograph of snow-capped mountains, 336 pages. Marianne Wiggins (born 1947) is an American author. According to The Cambridge Guide to Women's Writing in English, she writes with "a bold intelligence and an ear for hidden comedy." She has won a Whiting Award, an National Endowment for the Arts award, and the Janet Heidinger Kafka Prize. She was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in fiction in 2004 for her novel Evidence of Things Unseen.--Wiki adapted.<br /> <br /> SIGNED & INSCRIBED with enthusiasm & SKETCHES to a good FRIEND. <br /> <br /> The Shadow Catcher is "a dual narrative threading early life of photographer Edward Curtis [1868 - 1952] and current life of 'Marianne Wiggins.'" Curtis remains a highly important ethnographic and photographic recorder of native Americans and the Far West.<br /> <br /> EXCEPTIONAL CONDITION: Tight, bright, clean copy in comparable dust jacket (unclipped). Apart from the Author's enthusiastic and personal entries (for which we hope that the former recipient remains Well since his copy has become available), there are no stray marks.
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- Bookseller
- Borg Antiquarian
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 8505
- Title
- THE SHADOW CATCHER
- Author
- Wiggins, Marianne
- Illustrator
- Sketches by the Author
- Format/Binding
- Cloth and boards
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Fine
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition, First Printing
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 0743265203
- ISBN 13
- 9780743265201
- Publisher
- Simon & Schuster
- Place of Publication
- New York, N.Y.
- Date Published
- 2007
- LCCN
- 2007011842
- Keywords
- West, reservations, trains, rail, education, Sun Dance, children, heritage,
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Borg Antiquarian
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Lake Forest, Illinois
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About Borg Antiquarian
BorgAntiquarian (ABAA & ILAB) is a dealer long engaged in selling exceptional collectibles: rare and fine books, autographs and manuscripts, fine art and artifacts. We are generalists in Americana, English & American literature, plus selected authors & important figures (Dickens & Darwin; presidents & 'signers'; scientists & historical figures; Revolutionary & Civil War militaria).
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- Gilt
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