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The Lost Boy
by Wolfe, Thomas
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good+ in Very Good+ dust jacket
- ISBN 10
- 0807820636
- ISBN 13
- 9780807820636
- Seller
-
Campbellcroft, Ontario, Canada
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
Chapel Hill: The University of North Carolina Press. Very Good+ in Very Good+ dust jacket. 1992. First Edition. Hardcover. 0807820636 . 81 p. 24 cm. Sound and square binding, with cloth backed spine and paper-covered boards. Text block edges a little dusty. Else fine. Inside pages are clean and unmarked. Dust jacket has a tiny bit of wear to the spine ends and corner tips. Lightly shelf rubbed. The first appearance of an original novella retelling an episode from Thomas Wolfe's childhood. .
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Details
- Bookseller
- Homeward Bound Books
(CA)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 5481
- Title
- The Lost Boy
- Author
- Wolfe, Thomas
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good+ in Very Good+ dust jacket
- Edition
- First Edition
- ISBN 10
- 0807820636
- ISBN 13
- 9780807820636
- Publisher
- The University of North Carolina Press
- Place of Publication
- Chapel Hill
- Date Published
- 1992
- Keywords
- 0807820636
- Bookseller catalogs
- Fiction;
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
Homeward Bound Books
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Campbellcroft, Ontario
About Homeward Bound Books
Homeward Bound Books is an online bookshop operated from our home in the Municipality of Port Hope, Ontario. We specialize in children's and illustrated books – collectible and reading copies; and local histories, particularly for Ontario. We also stock a selection of collectable mystery fiction, ephemera, and any other titles we find interesting or unusual. We have thousands of books yet to be catalogued. So, please contact us to be added to our client list, and we will let you know when we have books of interest to you. It is our pleasure to send books homeward bound -- from our shelves to yours.
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- Edges
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- Good+
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- Cloth
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- Text Block
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- Spine
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- Jacket
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- First Edition
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