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A Roomful of Hovings and Other Profiles
by McPhee, John
- Used
- good
- Hardcover
- Signed
- Condition
- Good
- ISBN 10
- 0374252084
- ISBN 13
- 9780374252083
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About This Item
Hardcover. Good. [SIGNED] New York: Farrar Straus Giroux, 1979. Hardcover in pictorial dust jacket. 2nd Printing, SIGNED and inscribed to Washington, DC church by John McPhee on the title page. 8vo.; (6), 250 pages. A collection of five biographical profiles by McPhee: Thomas Hoving, art historian, Euell Gibbons, (Stalking the Wild Asparagus), Robert Twynam, caretaker of the lawn at Wimbledon, Temple Fielding, (Fielding"s Travel Guides) and Carroll Brewster, (an M. I. T. Fellow in Africa). Minor shelf-wear, soiling to dj, faint spotting to fore-edge, else very good overall condition; no owner marking, NOT EX-LIBRARY. (frnc)
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- Title
- A Roomful of Hovings and Other Profiles
- Author
- McPhee, John
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 0374252084
- ISBN 13
- 9780374252083
- Publisher
- Farrar Straus & Giroux
- Date Published
- Hardcover
- Product_type
- 1
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