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The Rural Life by Klinkenborg, Verlyn
- Bookseller: The Sly Fox
(US)
- Seller Inventory #: 002681
- Format: Hardcover
- Book condition: New
- Jacket condition: New
- Edition: First Edition, First Printing
- Binding: Hardcover
- ISBN 10: 0316741671
- ISBN 13: 9780316741675
- Publisher: Little Brown
- Place: Boston
- Date published: 2003
- Pages: 213
- Size: 6 x 8.5 x 0.75 inches
- Weight: 0.75 pounds
Description
Boston: Little Brown, 2003. Nice, unsold, unread first edition, first printing of this collection of essays of a year of rural life.. First Edition, First Printing. Hard Cover. New/New. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.
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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