Stock Photo: Cover May Be Different
Messages From My Father.
by Calvin Trillin
- Used
- Paperback
- first
- Condition
- See description
- ISBN 10
- 0374525080
- ISBN 13
- 9780374525088
- Seller
-
Oregon City, Oregon, United States
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
New York, NY Farrar, Straus & Giroux: The Noonday Press, 1997. Paperback First Edition Thus [1997]; First Printing indicated. First Edition Thus [1997]; First Printing indicated. Very Near Fine in Wraps: shows a most minute dot at the fore-edge; first twenty pages a very faint bend near the lower front corner [not so defined as a crease, but perceptible]. Binding shows barely discernible lean, while remaining perfectly secure; text clean. Very close to 'As New'. NOT a Remainder. NOT a Book-Club Edition. NOT an Ex-Library copy. 8vo. 117pp. Trade Paperback. Calvin Trillin, the celebrated New Yorker writer, offers a rich and engaging biography of his father, as well as a literate and entertaining fanfare for the common (and decent, and hard-working) man. Abe Trillin had the western Missouri accent of someone who had grown up in St. Joseph and the dreams of America of someone who had been born is Russia. In Kansas City, he was a grocer, at least until he swore off the grocery business. He was given to swearing off thingscoffee, tobacco, alcohol, all neckties that were not yellow in color. Presumably he had also sworn off swearing, although he was a collector of curses, such as "May you have an injury that is not covered by workman's compensation." Although he had a strong vision of the sort of person he wanted his son to be, his explicit advice about how to behave didn't go beyond an almost lackadaisical "You might as well be a mensch." Somehow, though, Abe Trillin's messages got through clearly.
Reviews
(Log in or Create an Account first!)
Details
- Bookseller
- Black Cat Hill Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 37938
- Title
- Messages From My Father.
- Author
- Calvin Trillin
- Format/Binding
- Paperback
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition Thus [1997]; First Printing indicated.
- ISBN 10
- 0374525080
- ISBN 13
- 9780374525088
- Publisher
- Farrar, Straus & Giroux: The Noonday Press,
- Place of Publication
- New York, NY
- Date Published
- 1997.
- Bookseller catalogs
- Authors and Writers; Biography; Journalists; Memoirs; Relationships; Biographies; Family;
Terms of Sale
Black Cat Hill Books
Default shipping charges provided at the time of sale will hold unless the actual cost of shipping is significantly more - or less -t han the default shipping charge quoted. In such cases we will contact you with alternative charges; we will arrive at these charges by the following method: actual United States Postal Service (or UPS) shipping charges + $2.00 handling charge. We guarantee the accuracy of our descriptions and the quality of our packaging. Books we ship may be returned for any reason. If you are not satisfied, notify us via email, and return the book. If we are satisfied that we have provided an inaccurate description, we will refund your return shipping charges, at USPS Media Mail rates. All prices are net to all. Please let us know if we can be of further assistance in expediting your order. Thanks from the folks on Black Cat Hill.
About the Seller
Black Cat Hill Books
Biblio member since 2004
Oregon City, Oregon
About Black Cat Hill Books
Black Cat Hill Books is an Internet-only bookseller.
Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- Fine
- A book in fine condition exhibits no flaws. A fine condition book closely approaches As New condition, but may lack the...
- First Edition
- In book collecting, the first edition is the earliest published form of a book. A book may have more than one first edition in...
- Trade Paperback
- Used to indicate any paperback book that is larger than a mass-market paperback and is often more similar in size to a hardcover...
- Remainder
- Book(s) which are sold at a very deep discount to alleviate publisher overstock. Often, though not always, they have a remainder...