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A Blue Hand (SIGNED, DATED, BROOKLYN): The Beats in India
by DEBORAH BAKER
- New
- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- New/New
- ISBN 10
- 1594201587
- ISBN 13
- 9781594201585
- Seller
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Monkton, Maryland, United States
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About This Item
HARDCOVER. SIGNED. A Blue Hand - The Beats in India by Deborah Baker (2008). SIGNED, Dated, (August 30, 2018), and Brooklyn wrote to the title page by Deborah Baker, the author. Brand New and Never owned. This is a First Edition, First Printing copy as stated on the copyright page. Dust jacket is in Brand New condition with no issues. The book has no tears, marks, creases, remainder marks, library markings, or black lines on the edges. Not inscribed to anyone. Not price clipped, not a Book Club Edition (BCE), or signed on a bookplate. True Collectible Quality. First Edition, First Printing, hand SIGNED, Dated, August 30, 2018, & Brooklyn written to full title page. No inscription; full signature plus August 30, 2018, and Brooklyn only. From an event featuring Deborah Baker in conversation with Kanishk Tharoor at an event in New York City on August 30, 2018. BONUSES: The four-page, color, August 2018 event flier, and the bookstore's color bookmark are included. This book will be carefully wrapped and shipped via USPS mail with free delivery confirmation. **** Deborah Baker is the author of Making a Farm: The Life of Robert Bly; In Extremis: The Life of Laura Riding, which was shortlisted for the Pulitzer Prize for Biography; A Blue Hand: The Beats in India; and The Convert: A Tale of Exile and Extremism, which was a finalist for the National Book Award. The Last Englishmen: Love, War, and the End of Empire was published on August 21, 2018. Baker is married to the writer Amitav Ghosh. ISBN: 978-1594-2015-85. BS12297.
Synopsis
In this engrossing new piece of Beat history, Pulitzer Prize finalist Deborah Baker takes us back to the moment when America's edgiest writers looked to India for answers as India looked to the West. It was 1961 when Allen Ginsberg left New York by boat for Bombay, where he hoped to meet poets Gary Snyder and Joanne Kyger. Baker follows Ginsberg and his companions as they travel from ashram to opium den. Exposing an overlooked chapter of the literary past, A Blue Hand will delight all those who continue to cherish the frenzied creativity of the Beats.
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- Bookseller
- Charm City Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- BS12297
- Title
- A Blue Hand (SIGNED, DATED, BROOKLYN)
- Author
- DEBORAH BAKER
- Format/Binding
- HARDCOVER w/ Dust Jacket Cover
- Book Condition
- New New
- Jacket Condition
- New
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- FIRST EDITION, FIRST PRINTING
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 1594201587
- ISBN 13
- 9781594201585
- Publisher
- Penguin Press HC, The; First Edition edition (2008)
- Place of Publication
- UNITED STATES
- Date Published
- Jan 1, 2008
- Keywords
- deborah baker, signed books, first editions, memoirs, travelers explorers, india, asia, travel, authors,
- Bookseller catalogs
- SIGNED BOOKS;
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Charm City Books
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Charm City Books
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Monkton, Maryland
About Charm City Books
I sell mostly Modern First Editions. Most of my inventory is Hand Signed First Edition/First Printing Hardcovers. I also carry a collection of Brand New & Like New, Signed and Unsigned Franklin Library & Easton Press Books. I will accept offers on any book I have. If your offer is accepted, you are committed to buy. I will then reduce the price of the item ON THIS SITE so you can purchase the item or book on this site using their check-out...
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