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The Heart of a Woman
by Angelou, Maya
- Used
- near fine
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Near Fine/Very Good
- ISBN 10
- 0394512731
- ISBN 13
- 9780394512730
- Seller
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Las Vegas , Nevada, United States
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About This Item
New York: Random House, 1981 First printing of the stated first edition. Book with light shelf wear, else in fine condition; dust jacket with a tiny closed tear/crease to bottom front cover, a couple short closed tears to head of spine, mild wear to edges, and minor wear to covers, else fine.
Synopsis
Poet, writer, performer, teacher and director Maya Angelou was raised in Stamps, Arkansas, and then went to San Francisco. In addition to her bestselling autobiographies, beginning with I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings , she has also written five poetry collections, including I Shall Not Be Moved and Shaker, Why Don't You Sing? , as well as the celebrated poem "On the Pulse of Morning," which she read at the inauguration of President William Jefferson Clinton. From the Trade Paperback edition.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Idler Fine Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 023019
- Title
- The Heart of a Woman
- Author
- Angelou, Maya
- Illustrator
- Janet Halverson
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Near Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- ISBN 10
- 0394512731
- ISBN 13
- 9780394512730
- Publisher
- Random House
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1981
- Keywords
- Autobiography, Biography, Afro-American, African American, 20th Century, Politics, Black Muslims, Robert Kennedy, Huey P. Newton, Black Liberation, Oakland, Ronald Reagan, Stanford, Civil Rights, Black Panthers, Nobel Prize and Poet Laureate Recipient.
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About the Seller
Idler Fine Books
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Las Vegas , Nevada
About Idler Fine Books
We specialize in First Editions in Fiction, Poetry, Science Fiction, Horror, Mystery, many signed first editions and limited editions.
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- Spine
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- Fine
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- Edges
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- Shelf Wear
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- Jacket
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