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Synopsis
A collection of stories whose characters interpret their lives through different unusual languages - visual, numerical, linguistic, sexual - and through honesty, humour and polemical imagination. The author was awarded the best first in English at Trinity College, Dublin, since Oscar Wilde.
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About the Author
Anne Enright was born in Dublin, where she now lives and works. She won the Rooney Prize in 1991.
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- PublisherSecker & Warburg
- Publication date1991
- ISBN 10 0436200147
- ISBN 13 9780436200144
- BindingHardcover
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The Portable Virgin
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ISBN 10: 0436200147
ISBN 13: 9780436200144
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The Portable Virgin
Published by
Secker & Warburg, London, United Kingdom, 1991
ISBN 10: 0436200147
ISBN 13: 9780436200144
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Seller: Eric James, Lewisporte, NL, Canada
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Hard Cover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Hardcover with unclipped dust jacket, 181 pages; gently bumped at top of spine and both bottom cover corners, traces of dust speckling to top edge, otherwise very gently used, very clean and unmarked; DJ lightly bumped along edges, spine sun faded almost to white. Seller Inventory # 039555
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The Portable Virgin
Published by
Secker & Warburg, London, United Kingdom, 1991
ISBN 10: 0436200147
ISBN 13: 9780436200144
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Hardcover
First Edition
Seller: Eric James, Lewisporte, NL, Canada
Seller rating 5 out of 5 stars
Hard Cover. Condition: Very Good ++. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Hardcover with unclipped dust jacket, 181 pages; gently bumped at top of spine and front cover hinge, otherwise very gently used, very clean and unmarked; DJ very lightly bumped along edges, spine sun faded to white. Seller Inventory # 039554
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The Portable Virgin - Signed
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ISBN 13: 9780436200144
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Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. Used.Hardcover in unclipped dust-jacket.Signed by Anne Enright to the title page.Author's first book.Short stories.Mild toning to page edges.Short closed tear to jacket fold.Generally very good with a little page aging. Signed by Author(s). Seller Inventory # 001652
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The Portable Virgin
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Secker & Warburg, London, United Kingdom, 1991
ISBN 10: 0436200147
ISBN 13: 9780436200144
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Hardcover
First Edition
Seller: Eric James, Lewisporte, NL, Canada
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Hard Cover. Condition: Very Good ++. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good +. First Edition. Hardcover with unclipped dust jacket, 181 pages; book has a hint of foxing along the edge of the free back endpaper and a tiny pale faded (water drop?) stain to fore edge with just a trace of penetration to the outer fore edge margins of several pages, otherwise very gently used, very clean and unmarked; DJ has a hint of foxing inside both flaps and along the bottom inside edge. Seller Inventory # 039556
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The Portable Virgin
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ISBN 10: 0436200147
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Hardcover. Condition: Very Good +. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good +. 1st Edition. First UK Edition, First Print. In a very good plus Jacket .This copy has light spotting to the inner flaps of the jacket and toning to the end pages and early pages however, none of the heavy toning associated with nearly all this print run due to the cheap paper used in its production.SIGNED by Anne Enright to the title page. Signed by Author(s). Seller Inventory # 016838
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The Portable Virgin
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Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. First Edition. This is a unread true first edition, first printing (first impression) copy in a near Fine Dust Jacket with crease to rear panel.This copy has toning, associated with nearly all this print run due to the cheap paper used in its production. SIGNED [Anne Enright] by the author to the title page. Signed by Author(s). Seller Inventory # 013189
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The Portable Virgin
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First edition, first printing of author's first book. Signed by the author. Near fine with a small bump on bottom corner in near fine dustjacket. Seller Inventory # 21396
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The Portable Virgin
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