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Roads to Quoz: An American Mosey
by William Least Heat-Moon
- Used
- near fine
- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- Near Fine/Near Fine
- ISBN 10
- 0316110256
- ISBN 13
- 9780316110259
- Seller
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Carrollton, Texas, United States
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About This Item
New York: Little, Brown and Company, 2008. SIGNED. 1st/1st. NF/NF. Stated First Edition. First printing with complete 10 number line ending with 1. Signed on the title page by both William Least Heat-Moon and his wife, travel partner "Q". Carefully read book is tight with good corners and clean unmarred boards. Textblock is clean with no writing, bookplate or markings and not BCE, ex-library, or remaindered. Dust jacket is unclipped ($27.99) with mild shelf wear, else fine. Protected in a new Brodart Mylar cover.
This the third book in William Least Heat Moon's travel trilogy of back-roads America is the search for "quoz", an 18th-century term for something "strange, incongruous, peculiar".
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- Bookseller
- Armadillo Alley Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 2160
- Title
- Roads to Quoz
- Author
- William Least Heat-Moon
- Format/Binding
- Cloth
- Book Condition
- Used - Near Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Near Fine
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition / First Printing
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 0316110256
- ISBN 13
- 9780316110259
- Publisher
- Little, Brown and Company
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 2008
- Bookseller catalogs
- First Editions; Signed Books;
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Armadillo Alley Books
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