Baltimore, Maryland, USA: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1997. CF4 - A tight, clean, sound copy with very minor overall shelf wear plus there are the usual library stamps and label on the top outside paper edges, front endpaper, and title page. The dust jacket shows minor overall shelf wear mainly in the form of some light fading along the spine plus the dust jacket endflaps are glued to the inside surfaces of the boards plus there is a library label on the spine plus it is still in the original library mylar sleeve. This is a title in the publisher's Poetry and Fiction series. A novel set in the early 1970s as the golden age of the newspaper is drawing to a close. It is set in a small-town New England newspaper and the main character is an ambitious and eager college graduate who wants to start her career as a reporter there. Her first stories are rough though and she ends up assigned to the Women's page covering weddings and anniversaries. After a while she is offered a chance to work at a big-city newspaper and leaps at the chance where she finds that there is a price for success in the larger world. By the author of "The Courage of Girls," "Home at Last," "The Very Rich Hours," and "Airs of Providence." 222p.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Ex-Library.

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Seller: Bookmarc's (US)
Seller's Inventory #: SCW07677
Title: Gallagher's Travels
Author: McGarry, Jean
Format/Binding: Hardcover
Book Condition: Used - Very Good
Jacket Condition: Good
Edition: First Edition
ISBN 10: 0801856345
ISBN 13: 9780801856341
Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
Place of Publication: Baltimore, Maryland, USA
Date Published: 1997
Keywords: Fiction Literary Literature Journalism Journalist Woman Journalists Women
Bookseller catalogs: Fiction / Modern Fiction Firsts;
Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall

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