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How to Be Good.

HORNBY, Nick (born 1957).

New York, NY: Riverhead Books, 2001. [Modern Literature] INSCRIBED FIRST US EDITION. Octavo (21 x 14cm), pp.[12] 305 [3]. INSCRIBED by the author in black marker to title page: 'To Bill, | Best wishes, | Nick Hornby.' Publisher's red quarter cloth with black titles to spine, yellow paper over boards and red endpapers. With the yellow dust-jacket designed by Archie Ferguson, priced at $24.95. A fine, as-new copy. A woman with a strong social conscience confronts an identity crisis when she realises she still wants to divorce her husband after he changes his ways. Item #57112

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