Description: All the books we auction are unique, rare and scarce. Most are 1st Editions or early copies. We deal with books, ideas and writers of substance. Why pay $30 for a new book with no real value intellectually, spiritually or financially — when you can hold a true literary treasure. Charming Billy by Alice McDermott 1998 1st Edition Stated ~ 1st Printing w/ $22.00 intact on DJ Winner of The National Book Award for Fiction 1998 Mouseover images on your right to view more pictures Farrar, Straus and Giroux, New York, 1998. The book is bound in a dark blue cover with white titling on the spine and a photograph image on front cover that peeks through an opening in the jacket cover. Other than a tiny tear in cover peekhole corner, the book is in near fine condition with mild shelfwear and rubbing. Inside pages are clean, bright and tight. A beautiful copy of this rare, Award Winning first edition book. Alice McDermott (born June 27, 1953) is Johns Hopkins University’s Richard A Macksey Professor of the Humanities. Born in Brooklyn, New York, McDermott attended St. Boniface School in Elmont, Long Island, NY, Sacred Heart Academy in Hempstead NY , the State University of New York at Oswego, receiving her BA in 1975, and later received her MA from the University of New Hampshire in 1978. She has taught at the UCSD and American University, has been a writer-in-residence at Lynchburg and Hollins Colleges in Virginia, and was lecturer in English at the University of New Hampshire. Her short stories have appeared in Ms., Redbook, Mademoiselle,The New Yorker and Seventeen. The 1987 recipient of a Whiting Writers Award, the 1998 National Book Award for Charming Billy, and the 2008 recipient of the John William Corrington Award for Literary Excellence. Looking for more antique or rare out-of-print books? Visit our eBay Store below:
Price: 29.99 USD
Location: Milwaukee, Wisconsin
End Time: 2025-01-27T20:35:47.000Z
Shipping Cost: 4.99 USD
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Special Attributes: 1st Edition, Dust Jacket
Year Printed: 1998
Topic: Novels
Subject: Literature & Fiction
Binding: Hardcover w/Jacket
Author: Alice McDermott
Original/Facsimile: Original
Language: English
