She's Ilka Weissnix, a young Jewish refugee from Hitler's Europe, newly arrived in the United States. He's Carter Bayoux, her first American: a middle-aged, hard-drinking black intellectual. Lore Segal's brilliant novel is the story of their love affair--one of the funniest and saddest in modern fiction.
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She's Ilka Weissnix, a young Jewish refugee from Hitler's Europe, newly arrived in the United States. He's Carter Bayoux, her first American: a middle-aged, hard-drinking black intellectual. Lore Segal's brilliant novel is the story of their love affair--one of the funniest and saddest in modern fiction.
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Add this copy of Her First American to cart. $49.53, good condition, Sold by ThriftBooks-Dallas rated 5.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Dallas, TX, UNITED STATES, published 1985 by Alfred A. Knopf.
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Add this copy of Her First American to cart. $210.00, very good condition, Sold by David Segal rated 5.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Brooklyn, NY, UNITED STATES, published 1985 by Alfred A. Knopf.
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Very good in very good dust jacket. Signed by author. Sewn binding. Cloth over boards. 287 p. Audience: General/trade. Ships with signature confirmation. May 1985 Knopf hardcover stated 1st edition implicit 1st printing signed by the author on the title page, with a line through the printed name and dated August 12, 2022. DJ protected in mylar. Tanning on white parts of dj, inevitable sunning on edge of binding, you can tell if you go into the spine that the previous owner was a smoker, else text clean, binding tight.