The Innocents from Indiana
by Emily Kimbrough; Alice Harvey [Illustrator]
- Used
- Good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Good/Acceptable
- Seller
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Manhattan Beach, California, United States
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About This Item
Harper & Brothers, 1950-01-01. Hardcover. Good/Acceptable. Harper & Brothers [Published Date: 1950]. Hardcover, 229 pp. Stated First Edition. Good in acceptable+ dust jacket. Tan illustrated cloth covered boards with green cloth on spine. light bumping, scuffing and soiling to edges of covers. Binding tight. Previous owner's gift inscription dated "Xmas 1950" on front free end paper. Otherwise pages are lightly aged but clean and unmarked. Dust jacket has several small chips and tears and light creasing along edges. light overall scuffing, aging and soiling to jacket as well. NOT price clipped Now in an archival-quality Brodart Cover NOT Ex-Library. NO remainder marks. Charming illustrations by Alice Harvey. [From jacket flap] When Emily was eleven years old and her brother four, the Kimbroughs moved from Muncie, Indiana, to Chicago to live. This book is a gay, delightful account of that upheaval. In a way, The Innocents from Indiana is the story of every familyââ¬âof the joys and the sorrows, the funny things and the sad things that happen to parents and to children everywhere who are transplanted from towns to cities. It is the story of the trepidations that overtook Emily's parents when they moved from the small community where the Kimbroughs knew everybody to the big city where nobody knew the Kimbroughs, the story of Brother's complacence because he was young and of Emily's own bewilderment, the story of how the family progressed into the ways of the city... The book ends with Emily's graduation from school when the Kimbroughs had lived in Chicago for five years. Those years had been framed with incident: hilarious, mortifyingg, poignant and absurd. The Kimbroughs survived them, for the most part happily, and for all time closely knit as a family.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Epilonian Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 20190205005
- Title
- The Innocents from Indiana
- Author
- Emily Kimbrough; Alice Harvey [Illustrator]
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Jacket Condition
- Acceptable
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- Harper & Brothers
- Date Published
- 1950-01-01
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- Fiction, Mid-West, Chicago
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