Headed for the Blues: A Memoir
by Skvorecky, Josef
- Used
- Fine
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Fine/Fine
- ISBN 10
- 0880014628
- ISBN 13
- 9780880014625
- Seller
-
Salem, Oregon, United States
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About This Item
The Ecco Press, 1996. Fine / Fine. First edition, first printing. Book is clean, unmarked and square with tight binding and sharp corners. Dust jacket is price-intact and without defects, no chips, tears or markings of any kind. Protected in mylar cover. Skvorecky looks back on his childhood, his life of writing and the political repression of his native Czechoslovakia. A sardonic and heart-felt memoir from the author of The Bass Saxophone and The Bride of Texas. Translated to English by Kaca Polackova Henley. Carefully packaged and shipped in a cardboard box.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Linden Avenue Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 10022
- Title
- Headed for the Blues
- Author
- Skvorecky, Josef
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Fine
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First
- ISBN 10
- 0880014628
- ISBN 13
- 9780880014625
- Publisher
- The Ecco Press
- Place of Publication
- Hopewell, NJ
- Date Published
- 1996
- Pages
- 148
- Size
- 6 x 9 inches
- Keywords
- Non-fiction, first edition, memoir, Czechoslovakia
- Bookseller catalogs
- Non Fiction; Biography & Memoirs;
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