Clabbered Dirt, Sweet Grass
by Paulsen, Gary
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- ISBN 10
- 0151181012
- ISBN 13
- 9780151181018
- Seller
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Clarence Gardens, South Australia, Australia
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About This Item
New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich. 1992. Large octavo size [16x24cm approx]. Near Fine copy in Near Fine dustjacket. DJ is NOT price-clipped & is now protected in our purpose-made plastic sleeve. An excellent copy. Colour paintings by Ruth Wright Paulsen. Robust, professional packaging and tracking provided for all parcels. 120 pages. The blurb says "Gary Paulsen does for farming what Hemingway did for hunting and Theroux does for traveling. Gary Paulsen shows us a world of unremitting hard work and self-sufficiency in his powerfully elegiac account of the seasonal activities of a multigenerational farming family." . 1st US Edition. Hardback.
Synopsis
Paulsen captures a vanishing way of life and offers a lyrical tribute to the american farm. “Paulsen’s prose is realistic and down-to-earth....Ruth Wright Paulsen’s paintings are an invitation to pause and imagine...a delight” (Christian Science Monitor). Illustrations by Ruth Wright Paulsen.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Adelaide Booksellers (AU)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- BIB323569
- Title
- Clabbered Dirt, Sweet Grass
- Author
- Paulsen, Gary
- Format/Binding
- Hardback
- Book Condition
- Used -
- Edition
- 1st US Edition
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 0151181012
- ISBN 13
- 9780151181018
- Publisher
- Harcourt Brace Jovanovich
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1992
- Bookseller catalogs
- Natural History;
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
Adelaide Booksellers
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Clarence Gardens, South Australia
About Adelaide Booksellers
Antiquarian and Secondhand Bookseller. Member ANZAAB.Founded in 1979, Adelaide Booksellers is one of Adelaide's oldest and most respected secondhand and antiquarian booksellers. Members of the Australian and New Zealand Association of Antiquarian Booksellers [ANZAAB]. Has Adelaide's most comprehensive selection of book on military history. Also a very good range of Australiana books, Childrens's Books, Art and History books.Something for every budget. Now primarily an online/telephone seller but open to the public by arrangement.
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