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The Amateur: An Independent Life of Letters
by Lesser, Wendy
- Used
- good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Good/Good
- ISBN 10
- 0375404023
- ISBN 13
- 9780375404023
- Seller
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La Porte, Texas, United States
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About This Item
New York, New York, USA: Pantheon Books, 1999. BX3 - A hard cover first edition withdrawn ex-library book in good- condition with a dust jacket in very good- condition. A tight, clean, sound copy in cream paper covered boards quarter bound in dark green cloth with gold lettering and a graphic on the spine with minor overall shelf wear plus the usual library label and stamps on the front endpaper, title page, and top outside paper edges plus the dust jacket endflaps have been glued down to the inside surfaces of the boards plus a section (about 2"x4.75") of the front endpaper has been removed as part of the library's removal process. The dust jacket shows very minor overall shelf wear plus some light soiling overall plus it is still in the original library mylar sleeve with the usual library label on the spine wrapping onto the back plus the endflaps are glued down to the inside surfaces of the boards. An inquiry into how people discover their passions told through the author's own recounting of choices she has made in pursuit of an independent life of letters. The author is a winner of fellowships from the National Endowment for the Humanities and the Guggenheim Foundation and is a winner of the Morton Dauwen Zabel Award from the Academy of Arts and Letters. 274p.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Good/Good. 5.75"x7.75". Ex-Library.
Synopsis
Wendy Lesser lives in Berkeley, California.
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- Seller
- Bookmarc's
(US)
- Seller's Inventory #
- SCW04494
- Title
- The Amateur: An Independent Life of Letters
- Author
- Lesser, Wendy
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Jacket Condition
- Good
- Edition
- First Edition
- ISBN 10
- 0375404023
- ISBN 13
- 9780375404023
- Publisher
- Pantheon Books
- Place of Publication
- New York, New York, USA
- Date Published
- 1999
- Keywords
- Nonfiction Non-fiction Memoir Autobiography Book Reviewing Book Critics Book Editors Periodicals Literary Memoir Arts Diciplines Publishing Literary Criticism Book Reading Books
- Bookseller catalogs
- Biography / Authors & Writers; Biography / Memoirs; Biography / Autobiography: E-L;
- Size
- 5.75"x7.75"
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