A HOLOGRAM FOR THE KING
by Eggers, Dave
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- Fine
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Fine/Issued Without Jacket
- Seller
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Canandaigua, New York, United States
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About This Item
San Francisco: McSweeney's Books, 2012. First Edition. . Decorative Cloth. Fine/Issued Without Jacket. The award-winning Eggers' National Book Award finalist, this is the story of a nearly bankrupt American businessman's last-ditch attempt to ward off foreclosure, pay his daughter's college tuition and finally do something "great" by setting up and selling a holographic teleconference system to a Saudi Arabian king in the middle of the desert. Issued without a dustjacket, the brown-cloth-covered boards display a rich, decorative, middle-eastern design with gold lettering on the front cover and spine. The sticker on the back cover, providing the information usually found on the dust jacket flaps, is removable. Boards and text are clean and unmarked, tight and square, not remaindered. The original price, found on the back-cover sticker, has not been clipped. This is a very collectab;e book by a very collectable author.
Synopsis
Dave Eggers is the author of six previous books, including Zeitoun , winner of the American Book Award and the Dayton Literary Peace Prize. What Is the What was a finalist for the 2006 National Book Critics Circle Award and won France’s Prix Medici . That book, about Valentino Achak Deng, a survivor of the civil war in Sudan, gave birth to the Valentino Achak Deng Foundation, which operates a secondary school in South Sudan run by Mr. Deng. Eggers is the founder and editor of McSweeney’s, an independent publishing house based in San Francisco that produces a quarterly journal, a monthly magazine, The Believer , and an oral history series, Voice of Witness. In 2002, with Nínive Calegari he co-founded 826 Valencia, a nonprofit writing and tutoring center for youth in the Mission District of San Francisco. Local communities have since opened sister 826 centers in Chicago, Los Angeles, New York, Ann Arbor, Seattle, Boston and Washington, DC, and similar centers now exist in London (the Ministry of Stories), Dublin (Fighting Words) and in Copenhagen, Stockholm, Melbourne, and many other cities. A native of Chicago, Eggers now lives in Northern California with his wife and two children.
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Details
- Bookseller
- H.W. Gumaer, Bookseller
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 005253
- Title
- A HOLOGRAM FOR THE KING
- Author
- Eggers, Dave
- Format/Binding
- Decorative Cloth
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Issued Without Jacket
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition.
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- McSweeney's Books
- Place of Publication
- San Francisco
- Date Published
- 2012
- Keywords
- MODERN NOVEL, FIRST EDITION, MIDDLE EAST, SAUDI ARABIA, IT, TECHNOLOGY,
- Bookseller catalogs
- Modern Novel; Fine Literature; New England;
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About the Seller
H.W. Gumaer, Bookseller
Biblio member since 2005
Canandaigua, New York
About H.W. Gumaer, Bookseller
H.W. Gumaer, Bookseller, has been serving customers on the internet since 2003. We specialize in modern American and English fiction and in mystery and detective thrillers, as well as art and art history. We also have a growing selection of mid-to-late 19th century history and literature. Nearly all our modern and contemporary books are first editions or otherwise collectable.
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- Jacket
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- Spine
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- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
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