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Conversations with American Writers
by Charles Ruas
- Used
- near fine
- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- Near Fine/Very Good+
- ISBN 10
- 0704325543
- ISBN 13
- 9780704325548
- Seller
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Carrollton, Texas, United States
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About This Item
London: Quartet Books, 1984. Double Signed- Norman Mailer/Paul Theroux. NF/VG+. 1st/1st. The first British edition of this collection of interviews by Ruas with a number of famous writers. SIGNED on the pages where their profile begins: Norman Mailer (page 18) and Paul Theroux (page 244.) Book is Near Fine. Tight and straight with solid hinges. A corner mildly bumped, otherwise boards are clean and unmarred. Textblock is clean with no writing, marks or bookplate and not BCE, ex-library or remaindered. There is an abrasion spot where an apparent price sticker has been removed on the first free endpaper - about the size of a nickel. Dust jacket is unclipped (£14.95) with light wear to spine head and mild rubbing to black background on back cover. Protected in a new Brodart Mylar cover. Included is a bookmark from Chapters Bookstore in Washington, DC with author page signing info on the back.
ABOUT CONVERSATIONS WITH AMERICAN WRITERS
Here are 14 conversational interviews with contemporary writers who talk about the nature of their craft, about their strengths and dilemmas, their need to write, and about themselves.
- Toni Morrison / Norman Mailer (signed) / Susan Sontag / Scott Spencer / Robert Stone / Truman Capote / Tennessee Williams / E.L. Doctorow / Gore Vidal / Joseph Heller / Paul Theroux (signed) / William Burroughs / Eudora Welty / Marguerite Young
"A lively seminar, a sensational literary cocktail party ...the conversation is irresistible."
---Los Angeles Herald Examiner
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- Bookseller
- Armadillo Alley Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 2236
- Title
- Conversations with American Writers
- Author
- Charles Ruas
- Format/Binding
- Cloth
- Book Condition
- Used - Near Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good+
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition / First Printing
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 0704325543
- ISBN 13
- 9780704325548
- Publisher
- Quartet Books
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1984
- Bookseller catalogs
- First Editions; Signed Books;
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