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Cold Starry Night: An Artist's Memoir
by Fejes, Claire
- Used
- Paperback
- Condition
- F/VG+
- ISBN 10
- 0979047064
- ISBN 13
- 9780979047060
- Seller
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Salisbury, Wiltshire, United Kingdom
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About This Item
SOFTBACK ?HARD TO FIND OUTSIDETHE USA? SHIPPED FROM THE UK.* Edition: 2nd. With new Epilogue.* Date of Publication: 2007* Publisher: Epicenter Press Ltd.* Binding and cover condition: Soft card colour-photo covers. No bumps or rubs. Minimal shelf wear. Very light creases to spine & hinge. VG++* Contents condition: PRIVATE COPY NOT EX-LIBRARY. Clean, crisp, tight & bright. No Annotations or Inscriptions, no visible faults. Seems almost un-used. FINE* Illustrations: B/w line drawings & small vignettes* Pages: 318 pp. text. ii pp. Epilogue & advertisements at rear.* Product Description:- In 1946, young Claire Fejes was a painter and sculptor in New York City. She followed her husband to Fairbanks, Alaska, when he left to mine for gold. In her refreshingly candid memoir, Fejes tells of her life on a remote outpost at the last stop on the Alaska railroad, in the heart of the immense Northern Territory.* This is a NEAR FINE copy with minimal shelf & reading wear reducing it to VG++*
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- Bookseller
- Cocksparrow Books
(GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 647
- Title
- Cold Starry Night: An Artist's Memoir
- Author
- Fejes, Claire
- Format/Binding
- Paperback
- Book Condition
- Used - F/VG+
- Quantity Available
- 1
- ISBN 10
- 0979047064
- ISBN 13
- 9780979047060
- Publisher
- Epicenter Press
- Place of Publication
- Kenmore WA USA 320
- This edition first published
- 2007-10
- Size
- 21.6 x 14 x 2.3 cm
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