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Dave Barry Is from Mars and Venus [SIGNED COPY, FIRST PRINTING]
by Barry, Dave
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- Very Good
- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/Very Good
- ISBN 10
- 0609600664
- ISBN 13
- 9780609600665
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About This Item
New York: Crown Publishers, 1997. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Very good in very good dust jacket. SIGNED by author on title page (signature only). 1st edition, 1st printing; complete number line. Slight edgewear to dust jacket. Minor shelfwear to bottoms of boards. Sewn binding. Cloth over boards. 224 p. Contains: Illustrations. Audience: General/trade. By the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of 'I'll Mature When I'm Dead: Dave Barry's Amazing Tales of Adulthood' and 'Dave Barry's History of the Millennium (So Far)'. Where possible, all books come with dust jacket in a protective mylar sleeve, sealed in a ziplock bag, wrapped in bubble wrap, shipped in a box.
Synopsis
Dave Barry was born in Armonk, New York, in 1947 and has been steadily growing older ever since, without ever actually reaching maturity. He attended public schools, where he distinguished himself by not getting in nearly as much trouble as he would have if authorities had been aware of everything. He is proud to have been elected Class Clown by the Pleasantville High School in 1965. Barry went to Haverford College, where he was an English major and wrote lengthy scholarly papers filled with sentences that even he did not understand. He graduated in 1969 and eventually got a job with a newspaper named, this is the real name, the Daily Local News, in West Chester, Pennsylvania, where he covered a series of incredibly dull municipal meetings, some of which are still going on. In 1975, Barry joined Burger Associates, a consulting firm that teaches effective writing to business persons. He spent nearly eight years trying to get various businesspersons to for-God's-sake-stop-writing-things like "Enclosed please find the enclosed enclosure," but he eventually realized that it was hopeless. So, in 1983 he took a job at the Miami Herald, and he has been there ever since, although he never answers the phone. In 1988, he won the Pulitzer Prize for commentary, pending a recount. His column appears in several hundred newspapers, yet another indication of the worsening drug crisis. Barry is the author of numerous best-sellers, including the recent Dave Barry in Cyberspace (Crown 1996). He lives in Miami, Florida. From the Hardcover edition.
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- 775
- Title
- Dave Barry Is from Mars and Venus [SIGNED COPY, FIRST PRINTING]
- Author
- Barry, Dave
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 1st Edition 1st Printing
- ISBN 10
- 0609600664
- ISBN 13
- 9780609600665
- Publisher
- Crown Publishers
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1997
- Pages
- 269
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