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Baby of the Family
by ANSA, Tina McElroy
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/Very Good
- ISBN 10
- 015110431X
- ISBN 13
- 9780151104314
- Seller
-
Springtown, Pennsylvania, United States
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About This Item
NY: Harcourt Brace Jan., 1989. Bound in black cloth and brown boards, stamped in gold in illustrated dust jacket. The first edition (of the African-American author's scarce first book). Shows book store sticker to bottom of title page and some scraping to bottom of front board. Overall an acceptable. 265 pp. . First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good.
Synopsis
An evocative, delicately comic story of a girl’s coming of age. From the moment of her birth in a rural black hospital in Georgia, Lena McPherson is recognized as a special child, with the power to see ghosts and predict the future. Named a Notable Book of the Year by the New York Times.
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Details
- Bookseller
- abookshop (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 005796
- Title
- Baby of the Family
- Author
- ANSA, Tina McElroy
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Edition
- First Edition
- ISBN 10
- 015110431X
- ISBN 13
- 9780151104314
- Publisher
- Harcourt Brace Jan.
- Place of Publication
- NY
- Date Published
- 1989
- Bookseller catalogs
- African-American;
Terms of Sale
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- Title Page
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- Cloth
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- Jacket
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- First Edition
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- Acceptable
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