THE BOOKMAKER'S DAUGHTER: A Memory Unbound.
by Abbott, Shirley
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Fine in fine dust jacket./fine
- ISBN 10
- 0899195180
- ISBN 13
- 9780899195186
- Seller
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Ione, California, United States
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About This Item
New York:: Ticknor & Fields,, (1991). Hardcover first edition -. Fine in fine dust jacket.. First printing. The author's second book, a memoir which is also a journey through family history, feminist insight, and southern mythology. Shirley Jean Abbott grew up in Hot Springs, Arkansas, in the 1940s and 50s, the beloved daughter of Alfred Bemont Abbott, affectionately known as "Hat whose business was taking bets on horse racing. But he also loved to read, and he passed that love on to his daughter. xxi, 290 pp.
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- Bookseller
- Bookfever.com, IOBA (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 81557
- Title
- THE BOOKMAKER'S DAUGHTER: A Memory Unbound.
- Author
- Abbott, Shirley
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover first edition -
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine in fine dust jacket.
- Jacket Condition
- fine
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 0899195180
- ISBN 13
- 9780899195186
- Publisher
- Ticknor & Fields,
- Place of Publication
- New York:
- Date Published
- (1991)
- Keywords
- memoir, arkansas, father, reading,
- Bookseller catalogs
- Southern Writers and the South;
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