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History is Your Own Heartbeat
by HARPER, Michael S
- Used
- Fine
- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- Fine/Very Good
- Seller
-
Gloucester City, New Jersey, United States
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About This Item
Urbana, Illinois: University of Illinois Press, 1972. Hardcover. Fine/Very Good. First edition, second printing, clothbound issue. Octavo. 95pp. Fine in very good or better price-clipped dust jacket with light wear at the edges, rubbing and small stain on the back. Signed and Inscribed by Harper: "Remembering Brook Farm Inn and our marvelous visit with you in Lenox. 28 Sept '86.
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- Bookseller
- Between the Covers- Rare Books, Inc. ABAA
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 500538
- Title
- History is Your Own Heartbeat
- Author
- HARPER, Michael S
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- University of Illinois Press
- Place of Publication
- Urbana, Illinois
- Date Published
- 1972
- Keywords
- Poetry, African-Americana
- Bookseller catalogs
- African-Americana; Poetry;
Terms of Sale
Between the Covers- Rare Books, Inc. ABAA
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About the Seller
Between the Covers- Rare Books, Inc. ABAA
Biblio member since 2005
Gloucester City, New Jersey
About Between the Covers- Rare Books, Inc. ABAA
Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc., founded in 1985, specializes in first editions of 20th Century American and English fiction. Our inventory of over 75,000 first editions includes: African-American literature & history, Mysteries, Detective Fiction, Drama, Books into Film and Sports books. We routinely issue extensively illustrated color catalogs, available by subscription. We are members of the Antiquarian Booksellers' Association of America (ABAA)and the International League of Antiquarian Booksellers (ILAB). Tom Congalton, founder of Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc., actively promotes the ethics and standards of these professional organizations and served as President of the ABAA from 2000 to 2002.
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- First Edition
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- Jacket
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- Rubbing
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- Octavo
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- Edges
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- Inscribed
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- Fine
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