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At the Field's End: Interviews with Twenty Pacific Northwest Writers
by O'Connell, Nicholas
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Near fine copy in very good(+) jacket./very good +
- ISBN 10
- 0880890258
- ISBN 13
- 9780880890250
- Seller
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About This Item
Seattle: Madrona Publishers, 1987. First edition, first printing (full number line). Hardcover. Near fine copy in very good(+) jacket./very good +. Octavo in grey cloth in pale green unclipped jacket; 322 pages : portraits ; 24 cm.; light edgewear to jacket; no tears; o/w jacket is clean and bright; faintest fading to the very edges of boards due to sun exposure; o/w cloth is clean and free of fraying; boards are free of bumps; pages are clean, crisp, bright and free of marks and creases; edges of leaves are clean; binding is tight and square; a gently used copy. In English. || Contents: Preface -- Barry Lopez; Ursula K. Le Guin; David Wagoner; James Welch; Raymond Carver; Carolyn Kizer; James Mitsui; A. B. Guthrie Jr.; Richard Hoyt; Tess Gallagher; Ernest Gann; Norman Maclean; Jean M. Auel; Marilynne Robinson; William Stafford; Charles Johnson; Tom Robbins; Murray Morgan; Ivan Doig; Gary Snyder.
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- Bookseller
- Bibliope by Calvello Books
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 86630
- Title
- At the Field's End: Interviews with Twenty Pacific Northwest Writers
- Author
- O'Connell, Nicholas
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Near fine copy in very good(+) jacket.
- Jacket Condition
- very good +
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First edition, first printing (full number line)
- ISBN 10
- 0880890258
- ISBN 13
- 9780880890250
- Publisher
- Madrona Publishers
- Place of Publication
- Seattle
- Date Published
- 1987
- Keywords
- Oregon authors, American literature, Northwest, Pacific, History and criticism, Theory, 20th century, Homes and haunts
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