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Leaving Home: A Collection of Lake Wobegon Stories
by Keillor, Garrison
- Used
- Very Good
- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/Very Good
- ISBN 10
- 067081976X
- ISBN 13
- 9780670819768
- Seller
-
Beloit, Wisconsin, United States
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About This Item
New York: Viking, 1978. Stories of radio's most famous fictitious town by its creator, politely INSCRIBED on the half title: "To Sue, Best to a northern Lutheran, Garrison Keillor 5-26-89". First trade edition (first printing). Hardcover, green cloth spine over tan boards, gilt titling. Light wear to book & jacket, minor bump to corners. Text clean; xxii, [3], 244 pages.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. Octavo.
Synopsis
In the first collection of Lake Wobegon monologues, Keillor tells readers more about some of the people from Lake Wobegon Days and introduces some new faces. "Leaving Home is a book of exceptional charm . . . delightful . . . genuinely touching" — The Wall Street Journal "Clean, down-to-earth, exquisitely good hearted, highly ludicrous." — The New York Times
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Details
- Bookseller
- Bookworks MWABA, IOBA
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- q0477
- Title
- Leaving Home: A Collection of Lake Wobegon Stories
- Author
- Keillor, Garrison
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Edition
- First Edition
- ISBN 10
- 067081976X
- ISBN 13
- 9780670819768
- Publisher
- Viking
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1978
- Keywords
- Humor, Minnesota, Prairie Home Companion, Signed Books, Modern First Editions
- Size
- Octavo
Terms of Sale
Bookworks MWABA, IOBA
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About the Seller
Bookworks MWABA, IOBA
Biblio member since 2006
Beloit, Wisconsin
About Bookworks MWABA, IOBA
Most of our stock is on-line only, though we have many books in three booths at Angela's Attic Antique Mall, 1020 Gardner Street in South Beloit, Illinois; a booth across the street at the Best of Beloit; and a large booth at the Lake Geneva Antique Mall, 829 Williams Street, Lake Geneva, WI. You may request to see any of our on-line inventory at any location with a few days' notice.
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- Octavo
- Another of the terms referring to page or book size, octavo refers to a standard printer's sheet folded four times, producing...
- First Edition
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- Spine
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- Cloth
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- Gilt
- The decorative application of gold or gold coloring to a portion of a book on the spine, edges of the text block, or an inlay in...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Inscribed
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