Bloodroot: Reflections on Place by Appalachian Women Writers [SIGNED COPY]
by Dyer, Joyce (Editor)
- Used
- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- Very Good in Very Good dust jacket
- ISBN 10
- 0813120594
- ISBN 13
- 9780813120591
- Seller
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Traverse City, Michigan, United States
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About This Item
Lexington: University Press of Kentucky. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. 1998. First Edition; Second Printing. Hardcover. 0813120594 . SIGNED and inscribed by the author on the title page. Winner of the 1997 Appalachian Studies Award. Appalachian women reflect ont their Appalachian homes, their lives and their family roots. Contains a one page biography and photo of each woman whose work is included. Original maroon cloth publisher's covers with gilt spine lettering.There is some dust spotting to the edges (not to the interior of the pages) and about ten pages have a slight indendtation at the top, probably from a bookmark inserted at one time, else this is a nice clean, tight and unmarked book with no interior or exterior markings, no previous owner names and no bookplates. The dust jacket in similarly nice condition with no chips, tears, or markings. ; B&W Photographs; 8vo, 8"- 9" tall; 302 pages; Signed by Author .
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- Bookseller
- Peninsula Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 21188
- Title
- Bloodroot: Reflections on Place by Appalachian Women Writers [SIGNED COPY]
- Author
- Dyer, Joyce (Editor)
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good in Very Good dust jacket
- Edition
- First Edition; Second Printing
- ISBN 10
- 0813120594
- ISBN 13
- 9780813120591
- Publisher
- University Press of Kentucky
- Place of Publication
- Lexington
- Date Published
- 1998
- Keywords
- 0813120594, Women, Appalachia, Southern Americana
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