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Leaving Home: A Collection of Lake Wobegon Stories
by Keillor, Garrison
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Fine in Near Fine dust jacket
- ISBN 10
- 067081976X
- ISBN 13
- 9780670819768
- Seller
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Palatine, Illinois, United States
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About This Item
New York: Viking. Fine in Near Fine dust jacket. 1987. -. 1. Hard Cover. 067081976X . Quarter bound in teal cloth over beige boards, gilt lettering on spine. . The volume is in excellent condition, unmarked, tight, square and clean. Unclipped dust jacket shows only light shelf-wear, spine sunned, else fine. FINE/NEAR FINE.. Large 8vo 9" - 10" tall. xxiii, (iii), 244 pp .
Synopsis
In the first collection of Lake Wobegon monologues, Keillor tells readers more about some of the people from Lake Wobegon Days and introduces some new faces. "Leaving Home is a book of exceptional charm . . . delightful . . . genuinely touching" — The Wall Street Journal "Clean, down-to-earth, exquisitely good hearted, highly ludicrous." — The New York Times
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Details
- Bookseller
- Round Table Books, LLC
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 24792
- Title
- Leaving Home: A Collection of Lake Wobegon Stories
- Author
- Keillor, Garrison
- Format/Binding
- Hard Cover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine in Near Fine dust jacket
- Edition
- -. 1
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 067081976X
- ISBN 13
- 9780670819768
- Publisher
- Viking
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1987
- Keywords
- 067081976X, Short Stories, Memoirs;
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
Round Table Books, LLC
Biblio member since 2008
Palatine, Illinois
About Round Table Books, LLC
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- Tight
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- Fine
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