Baby Cakes Continuing Tales of the City
by Armistead Maupin
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- Very Good
- ISBN 10
- 0060152621
- ISBN 13
- 9780060152628
- Seller
-
Martinez, California, United States
Item Price
NZ$202.46NZ$182.22
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About This Item
- Inscribed and SIGNED by author on fly page.
- Stated First Edition - first printing (number line contains "1").
- Book cover near new, light edge wear/rubbing - pages clean and unmarked, light tanning at edges – spine solid and undamaged.
- Jacket like new, light shelf wear; protected in fresh mylar cover.
- Proceeds benefit Friends of the Library; books sold are NOT ex-library.
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When an ordinary househusband and his ambitious wife decide to start a family, they discover there's more to making a baby then meets the eye. Help arrives in the form of a grieving gay neighbor, a visiting monarch, and the dashing young lieutenant who defects from her yacht. Bittersweet and profoundly affecting, Babycakes was the first work of fiction to acknowledge the arrival of AIDS.
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Details
- Bookseller
- R&R Better Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- $FOLBIB162
- Title
- Baby Cakes Continuing Tales of the City
- Author
- Armistead Maupin
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition, First Printing
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 0060152621
- ISBN 13
- 9780060152628
- Publisher
- Harper & Row
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- March 1984
- Bookseller catalogs
- Friends of the LIbrary; Signed Books;
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