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This Census-Taker: Available Copies
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Below are the first 30 of the lowest-total-price offerings from AbeBooks; all information shown is as specified by the sellers. To see all responses direct from AbeBooks—who may have more than 30—click here.
This Census-Taker: A Novel by Miéville, China
Paperback
ISBN: 9781101967348
Publisher: Del Rey (2017)
Seller: ZBK Books (Carlstadt, NJ, U.S.A.)
Used Book—Condition: Fair
Book Price: $5.58
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May contain writing, notes, highlighting, bends or folds. Text is readable, book is clean, and pages and cover mostly intact. May show normal wear and tear. Item may be missing CD. May include library marks.
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This Census-Taker by Miéville, China
Hardcover
ISBN: 9781101967324
Publisher: Del Rey (2016)
Seller: GF Books, Inc. (Hawthorne, CA, U.S.A.)
Used Book—Condition: Good
Book Price: $7.95
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Book is in Used-Good condition. Pages and cover are clean and intact. Used items may not include supplementary materials such as CDs or access codes. May show signs of minor shelf wear and contain limited notes and highlighting.
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This Census-Taker: A Novel by Miéville, China
Paperback
ISBN: 9781101967348
Publisher: Del Rey (2017)
Seller: One Planet Books (Columbia, MO, U.S.A.)
Used Book—Condition: Good
Book Price: $5.99
Shipping: $3.99
TOTAL Cost: $9.98
Ships in a BOX from Central Missouri! May not include working access code. Will not include dust jacket. Has used sticker(s) and some writing and/or highlighting. UPS shipping for most packages, (Priority Mail for AK/HI/APO/PO Boxes).
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This Census-Taker by Mieville, China
Paperback
ISBN: 9781509812134
Publisher: Pan Macmillan (2017)
Seller: Better World Books Ltd (Dunfermline, United Kingdom)
Used Book—Condition: Very Good
Book Price: $4.51
Shipping: $9.97
TOTAL Cost: $14.48
Ships from the UK. Former library book; may include library markings. Used book that is in excellent condition. May show signs of wear or have minor defects.
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This Census-Taker by Miéville, China, Mieville, China
Hardcover
ISBN: 9781509812141
Publisher: Pan Macmillan (2016)
Seller: Better World Books Ltd (Dunfermline, United Kingdom)
Used Book—Condition: Very Good
Book Price: $5.36
Shipping: $9.97
TOTAL Cost: $15.33
Ships from the UK. Former library book; may include library markings. Used book that is in excellent condition. May show signs of wear or have minor defects.
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This Census-Taker by Miéville, China
Hardcover
ISBN: 9781101967324
Publisher: Del Rey (2016)
Seller: Irish Booksellers (Portland, ME, U.S.A.)
Used Book—Condition: Good
Book Price: $15.97
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TOTAL Cost: $15.97
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This Census-Taker by Miéville, China
Hardcover
ISBN: 9781101967324
Publisher: Del Rey (2016)
Seller: Irish Booksellers (Portland, ME, U.S.A.)
Used Book—Condition: Good
Book Price: $15.97
Shipping: Free!
TOTAL Cost: $15.97
SHIPS FROM USA. Used books have different signs of use and do not include supplemental materials such as CDs, Dvds, Access Codes, charts or any other extra material. All used books might have various degrees of writing, highliting and wear and tear and possibly be an ex-library with the usual stickers and stamps. Dust Jackets are not guaranteed and when still present, they will have various degrees of tear and damage. All images are Stock Photos, not of the actual item.
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This Census-Taker: A Novel by Miéville, China
Paperback
ISBN: 9781101967348
Publisher: Del Rey (2017)
Seller: Irish Booksellers (Portland, ME, U.S.A.)
Used Book—Condition: Good
Book Price: $15.97
Shipping: Free!
TOTAL Cost: $15.97
SHIPS FROM USA. Used books have different signs of use and do not include supplemental materials such as CDs, Dvds, Access Codes, charts or any other extra material. All used books might have various degrees of writing, highliting and wear and tear and possibly be an ex-library with the usual stickers and stamps. Dust Jackets are not guaranteed and when still present, they will have various degrees of tear and damage. All images are Stock Photos, not of the actual item.
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This Census-Taker (Paperback) by China Mieville
Paperback
ISBN: 9781101967348
Publisher: Random House USA Inc, New York (2017)
Seller: Grand Eagle Retail (Wilmington, DE, U.S.A.) New Book
Book Price: $17.99
Shipping: Free!
TOTAL Cost: $17.99
Paperback. For readers of George Saunders, Kelly Link, David Mitchell, and Karen Russell, This Census-Taker is a stunning, uncanny, and profoundly moving novella from multiple-award-winning and bestselling author China Mieville.NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY NPR In a remote house on a hilltop, a lonely boy witnesses a profoundly traumatic event. He triesand failsto flee. Left alone with his increasingly deranged parent, he dreams of safety, of joining the other children in the town below, of escape. When at last a stranger knocks at his door, the boy senses that his days of isolation might be over. But by what authority does this man keep the meticulous records he carries? What is the purpose behind his questions? Is he friend? Enemy? Or something else altogether? Filled with beauty, terror, and strangeness, This Census-Taker is a poignant and riveting exploration of memory and identity.Praise for This Census-TakerChina Mieville is a magician . . . who can both blow your mind with ideas as big as the universe and break your heart with language so precise and polished, its like hes writing with diamonds.NPR The book haunts the reader; what actually happened seems always just out of reach, glimpsed in shadow as it rounds a corner ahead of our vision.Los Angeles Review of Books [Mievilles] been compared to Karen Russell and George Saunders, and rightfully so.The Huffington Post Marvellous.The Guardian Lingers in the mind like an unsettling dream.Financial Times A thought-provoking fairy tale for adults . . . [This Census-Taker] resembles the narrative style, quirkiness, and plotting found in the works of Karen Russell, Aimee Bender, or Steven Millhauser.Booklist Brief and dreamlike . . . a deceptively simple story whose plot could be taken as a symbolic representation of an aspect of humanity as big as an entire society and as small as a single soul.Kirkus Reviews Includes excerpt: The last days of new Paris. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.
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This Census-Taker by Miéville, China
Hardcover
ISBN: 9781101967324
Publisher: Del Rey, New York (2016)
Seller: Beaver Bridge Books (Holiday Island, AR, U.S.A.)
Used Book—Condition: As New
Book Price: $18.22
Shipping: Free!
TOTAL Cost: $18.22
Stated first edition/first print with complete number line beginning with "1". As new. Opened only to apply mylar protection. Clean, tight and bright. Not bumps, creases, tears or stains. Not price clipped, remaindered or library withdrawn. Shipped padded in a box with tracking number provided on domestic shipping.
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