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Washington Schlepped Here: Walking in the Nation's Capital
by Christopher Buckley
- Used
- near fine
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Near Fine/Near Fine
- ISBN 10
- 1400046874
- ISBN 13
- 9781400046874
- Seller
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Nashua, New Hampshire, United States
Item Price
NZ$8.51NZ$7.66
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About This Item
First edition hardcover with dust jacket, published by Crown, 2003. Travel with Buckley as he tells stories of the well known and not so well known places of Washington DC. Part of a series of travel books from Crown under the series title 'Crown Journeys'. 159 pages. The dust jacket is intact and is not price clipped. No former ownership marks, no writing on the text pages. the sewn binding is tight and square. Off-white boards over blue spine with the author name and title imprinted on the spine in silver. Boards are flat, the corners are not bumped or creased. The edges of the text block show a few dots of age tanning and there is a smudge mark on the bottom edge of the front board. The attached photo is of the copy we have in our inventory.
Synopsis
Christopher Buckley is the author of nine previous books, including Thank You for Smoking , Little Green Men , and, most recently, No Way to Treat a First Lady . He is editor of Forbes FYI magazine and has contributed more than fifty “Shouts and Murmurs” to The New Yorker . From the Hardcover edition.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Hopkins Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 21-744
- Title
- Washington Schlepped Here: Walking in the Nation's Capital
- Author
- Christopher Buckley
- Book Condition
- Used - Near Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Near Fine
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 1400046874
- ISBN 13
- 9781400046874
- Publisher
- Crown Publishing Group
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 2003-04-08
- Keywords
- Washington DC
- Bookseller catalogs
- Travel; Humor;
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Hopkins Books
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Nashua, New Hampshire
About Hopkins Books
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- Price Clipped
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- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- Edges
- The collective of the top, fore and bottom edges of the text block of the book, being that part of the edges of the pages of a...
- Spine
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- Jacket
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