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The Rural Life by Klinkenborg, Verlyn
- Bookseller: Gene Sperry Books
(US)
- Seller Inventory #: 74454
- Edition: 1st Edition
- Binding: Hardcover
- ISBN 10: 0316741671
- ISBN 13: 9780316741675
- Publisher: Little Brown & Co
- Date published: 2002
- Pages: 213
- Size: 6 x 8.5 x 0.75 inches
- Weight: 0.75 pounds
Description
Klinkenborg, Verlyn., Little, Brown & Co., 2002, c2002, 1st Edition, boards & cloth (hard cover), fine with fine dj (price-clipped), 213 pp, B&W wood engraving illus. by Reynolds Stone, 8vo, ISBN: 0316741671, "A yearlong meditation on the deep joys of country life
boards : Common term for the covers of a hardbound book.
DJ : Short for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps around the binding of a book.
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.
Cloth : Generally refers to a hardcover with cloth covering the outside of the book covers.
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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