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O AMERICA: When You and I Were Young
by Barzini, Luigi
- Used
- Fine
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Fine/Fine
- ISBN 10
- 0060102268
- ISBN 13
- 9780060102265
- Seller
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Los Angeles, California, United States
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About This Item
New York, NY, U.S.A.: Harper Collins Publishers, Inc., 1977. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. A very good read about time past and gone!! An intuitive look at America from a forigner. Barzini is able to step back, view our culture, and observe how all the pieces fit together and how it had an effect on him as an adolescent. Author of THE ITALIANS, THE EUROPEANS and others. Fine,first edition, first printing, in red cloth, in fine (slight chipping to spine ends), mylar-protected dust jacket. [Not remainder-marked or price-clipped] NF1
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- Bookseller
- Joe Staats, Bookseller
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 11408
- Title
- O AMERICA: When You and I Were Young
- Author
- Barzini, Luigi
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Fine
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 1st Edition 1st Printing
- ISBN 10
- 0060102268
- ISBN 13
- 9780060102265
- Publisher
- Harper Collins Publishers, Inc.
- Place of Publication
- New York, NY, U.S.A.
- Date Published
- 1977
- Size
- 8vo - over 7¾" - 9&f
- Keywords
- JOURNALISTS LANGUAGE ARTS DISCIPLINES JOURNALISM Journalism
- Bookseller catalogs
- Biography;
- Product_type
- 2
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Joe Staats, Bookseller
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Joe Staats, Bookseller
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Los Angeles, California
About Joe Staats, Bookseller
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We specialize in collectible, contemporary signed first editions. First edition means the first printing. (Later printings of the first edition are typically not printed on acid-free paper, and should be avoided by collectors.) Signatures are obtained by us in person. Inscribed books sold by us may contain a line, a phrase, or a sketch that the author has chosen to add. Our signed books are not dedicated to anybody in particular (not to your grandmother, your Aunt Gladys, your ex-lover or your former cellmate), except in the rare case of a presentation copy from an author to a noteworthy person. All our books are hardcover, unless the book is an Advance Reading Copy, Uncorrected Proof, or PBO. You can expect that the books we send you will be as described, and in a physical condition worthy of the author’s having signed them. We do not sell remainder-marked books, signed or otherwise
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