Flophouse: Life on the Bowery
by David Isay and Stacy Abramson
- Used
- Fine
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Fine/near fine
- ISBN 10
- 0375503226
- ISBN 13
- 9780375503221
- Seller
-
Gridley, California, United States
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
New York: Random House, 2000. First Edition, First Printing. Cloth. Fine/near fine. Harvey Wang. A fine first edition in a very good plus dust jacket. Long inscription on front with the name "David" but I cannot and do not verify that it is the author's signature. Light cream colored cloth boards. Dust jacket showing some wear at top and bottom edge, and dust staining to jacket. Photos by Harvey Wang. 259 pp. 8 x 8 inches tall. David Isay is the founder of StoryCorps and its parent company, Sound Portraits Productions. Over the past two decades his radio documentary work has won nearly every award in broadcasting, including five Peabody awards. David has also received a Guggenheim Fellowship, a MacArthur Fellowship, and a United States Artists Fellowship. He is the author (or coauthor) of numerous books based on Sound Portraits radio stories." ---Publisher's web site
Reviews
(Log in or Create an Account first!)
Details
- Bookseller
- Uncommon Works (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 1185
- Title
- Flophouse: Life on the Bowery
- Author
- David Isay and Stacy Abramson
- Illustrator
- Harvey Wang
- Format/Binding
- Cloth
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine
- Jacket Condition
- near fine
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition, First Printing
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 0375503226
- ISBN 13
- 9780375503221
- Publisher
- Random House
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 2000
- Keywords
- homeless, skid row, bowery
Terms of Sale
Uncommon Works
90 day return guarantee, for up to 90 days after delivery if an item arrives misdescribed or damaged. The authenticity of signatures guaranteed.
Please note: Large, heavy and multi-volume sets billed at actual postage.
About the Seller
Uncommon Works
Biblio member since 2014
Gridley, California
About Uncommon Works
Not your ordinary book store! Uncommon Works specializes in rare, odd, unique, and handmade books, with a focus on the Maya, Latin America, Native America, and the Spanish Conquest. You'll find rare, first editions and first or early printings. You'll even find a few first printings of living authors for sale. We provide services and referrals for book mending, repair, restoration, and binding.
Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- Fine
- A book in fine condition exhibits no flaws. A fine condition book closely approaches As New condition, but may lack the...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- First Edition
- In book collecting, the first edition is the earliest published form of a book. A book may have more than one first edition in...