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Back to Barbary Lane. The Final Tales of the City. Omnibus.
by Maupin, Armistead
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good Plus/Very Good Plus
- Seller
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Newburyport, Massachusetts, United States
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About This Item
New York: Harper Collins, 1991 Hard cover in blue publisher's cloth with author's facsimile signature in silver to front board and titles in same to spine, in a d/j. 713pp. First edition Thus, first printing. Omnibus edition of the second trilogy of the Tales of the City series, set in San Francisco, by the author and gay activist Armistead Jones Maupin (1944 - ). Condition: Remainder mark to bottom of text block. Dust jacket shows some shelfwear and light marks to the back. Includes the "hilarious and heartbreaking" short stories first published in the San Francisco Chronicle, "Baby Cakes," "Significant Others," and " Sure of You," among other works describing the burgeoning AIDS crisis in that city beginning in the 1980's.. First US Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good Plus/Very Good Plus.
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- Bookseller
- Dark and Stormy Night Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 8028
- Title
- Back to Barbary Lane. The Final Tales of the City. Omnibus.
- Author
- Maupin, Armistead
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good Plus
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good Plus
- Edition
- First US Edition
- Publisher
- Harper Collins
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1991
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About Dark and Stormy Night Books
Now entering our eighteenth year, Dark and Stormy Night Books is an online bookstore carrying Rare, Antiquarian and other interesting finds. Alasdair and Alexandra Johnson, Proprietors. Alasdair, from Edinburgh, Scotland has a colorful heritage including the salvage of shipwrecks off the English coast, and transportation of an eighteenth-century revolutionary relative to Australia. When not swashbuckling through the world of electronics and other gizmos as a lad, he scared himself silly with science-fiction, ghost stories and gothic novels. His partner, Alexandra, is a third-generation book dealer, whose family had the smallest of small-press workshops in the family barn. She is a graduate in history and art history from Bowdoin College, with a particular interest in the Far East and the China trade, the Pre-Raphaelite brotherhood, and the British Arts & Crafts Movement. She also spent some years working for a nationally known early-American antiques dealer. They make their home in historic Newburyport, on the Massachusetts coast. Visit our website: www.darkandstormynightbooks.com
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