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Bad Land
by Raban, Jonathan
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- F/F/VG+
- ISBN 10
- 0330346210
- ISBN 13
- 9780330346214
- Seller
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Salisbury, Wiltshire, United Kingdom
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About This Item
HARDBACK SHIPPED FROM THE UK* Edition: 1st.* Impression: 1st.* Date of Publication: 1996* Publisher: Picador* Binding and cover condition: Maroon cloth, gilt title to spine. No bumps or rubs, no visible faults. FINE* Jacket condition: Colour illustrated dust wrapper. NOT PRICE CLIPPED, showing shelf price of £15.99. Slight shelf wear to top edge and to head of spine. VG+ * Contents condition: PRIVATE COPY NOT EX-LIBRARY. Clean, crisp, tight and bright with no reading wear, no marks to text, seems little used. FINE.* Illustrations: Monochrome maps to end papers. * Pages: 321 pp. text. viii pp. acknowledgements & blank pages at rear.* Description: In 1993 Jonathan Raban entered the Badlands, a place the size of England and the least visited region in all of the United States. Here he came across the ruins of a community and isolated homesteads. These homes, he realized, gave clues as to the characters and lives of the thousands of landless people who, seduced by the advertising of the railroad companies in the early 20th century, took the train West in search of new lives and a permanent agricultural community. What had happened to turn these homesteaders' hopes of a new beginning into such despair? The land which betrayed them turned out to be an America in miniature. This is their story.* A NEAR FINE copy of the 1st /1st with NO MAJOR FAULTS reduced to VG+ by slight dust jacket wear.*
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- Bookseller
- Cocksparrow Books
(GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 234
- Title
- Bad Land
- Author
- Raban, Jonathan
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - F/F/VG+
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- ISBN 10
- 0330346210
- ISBN 13
- 9780330346214
- Publisher
- Picador
- Place of Publication
- London UK. 336
- This edition first published
- 1996
- Size
- 23.8 x 15.6 x 3.4 cm
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