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A Tenured Professor
by Galbraith, John Kenneth
- Used
- Fine
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Fine/Near Fine
- ISBN 10
- 0395471001
- ISBN 13
- 9780395471005
- Seller
-
New Port Richey, Florida, United States
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About This Item
Wilmington, Massachusetts, U.S.A.: Houghton Mifflin, 1990. First Edition . Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. (1st) Slightly smaller book, cream cloth spine, cream boards, red lettering on spine very fine, maroon inside covers and adjacent end papers, 195 stiff lightly browned pages. DJ pale peach background, color-illustration on front, praise for "The Triumph" from The New Yorker, Washington Post, Christian Science Monitor, Punch and more. DJ lightly soiled overall. Near Fine DJ/Very Fine book.
Synopsis
A Tenured Professor is a satirical novel by Canadian/American economist and Professor Emeritus at Harvard, John Kenneth Galbraith, about a liberal university teacher who sets out to change American society by making money and then using it for the public good. Set at Harvard mainly during the Reagan administration, the plot and all the characters that appear in the story are entirely fictitious.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Callaghan Books South
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 28703
- Title
- A Tenured Professor
- Author
- Galbraith, John Kenneth
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Near Fine
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- ISBN 10
- 0395471001
- ISBN 13
- 9780395471005
- Publisher
- Houghton Mifflin
- Place of Publication
- Wilmington, Massachusetts, U.S.A.
- Date Published
- 1990
- Keywords
- COLLEGE TEACHERS FICTION GALBRAITH JOHN
Terms of Sale
Callaghan Books South
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About the Seller
Callaghan Books South
Biblio member since 2004
New Port Richey, Florida
About Callaghan Books South
An internet bookstore, we have added 20 books a day to our inventory for a total of more than 40,000, specializing in Poetry, Vietnam Conflict, Native American, Literary Criticism.
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- Cloth
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