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The Rural Life : A Yearlong Meditation On The Deep Joys Of Country Life by Klinkenborg, Verlyn
- Bookseller: The Hard-to-Find Book Store
(US)
- Seller Inventory #: 26506
- Format: Hardcover
- Book condition: Near Fine
- Jacket condition: Near Fine
- Edition: 4th Printing
- Binding: Hardcover
- ISBN 10: 0316741671
- ISBN 13: 9780316741675
- Publisher: Little, Brown and Company
- Date published: 2002
- Pages: 213
- Size: 6 x 8.5 x 0.75 inches
- Weight: 0.75 pounds
Description
Little, Brown and Company, 2002. 213 pp., book and dust jacket in near pristine condition - spine color white with yellow band near top w/ black & light blue text - nature. 4th Printing. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.
dust jacket : A protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps around the binding of a book. spine : The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf. Also known as the back. 8vo : Short for Octavo, A book whose page size is approximately 8-10 inches tall. The size is based on a sheet of paper 25 inches by 38 inches, the size of paper traditionally used by book printers, which has been folded and cut into 16 pages..
Unfortunately often misunderstood to mean 8 volumes.
Book summary
Essayist and farmer Verlyn Klinkenborg writes tenderly but with lucidity about country living at the end of the 20th century and the start of the 21st. A New York Times Notable Book for 2002.
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