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Sweet Summer: Growing Up With and Without My Dad (Signed Bookplate laid-in)
by CAMPBELL, Bebe Moore
- Used
- first
- Condition
- See description
- Seller
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Winchester, Virginia, United States
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About This Item
New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1989. First Edition. First Printing. Signed bookplate loosely laid-in. Octavo (23.5cm); blue backstrip over green paper-covered boards, titled in gilt on the spine; 272p.; sppine ends and corners are gently pushed, Near Fine. The dustjacket is unclipped (priced $18.95) with tiny short closed tear near crown of spine, else Fine.
"Summers were when Bebe Moore Campbell grew close to her father. That was the season when his fast car raced from Philadelphia to the Tidewater region of North Carolina with his prized daddy's girl." (from the dustjacket).
"Summers were when Bebe Moore Campbell grew close to her father. That was the season when his fast car raced from Philadelphia to the Tidewater region of North Carolina with his prized daddy's girl." (from the dustjacket).
Synopsis
Bebe Moore Campbell was a bestselling author and a journalist. Her nonfiction work has appeared in The New York Times, The Washington Post, Los Angeles Times, Ms., Essence, Black Enterprise, Ebony, Working Mother, USA Weekend, and Adweek, among other publications. She was a regular contributor to National Public Radio. Bebe Moore Campbell was the author of such national, critically acclaimed bestsellers as Brothers and Sisters, Singing in the Comeback Choir , Your Blues Ain't Like Mine , and What You Owe Me as well as the award-winning children’s book, Sometimes My Mommy Gets Angry and the recently published Stompin’ at the Savoy . Campbell was born and grew up in Philadelphia and graduated from the University of Pittsburgh, where she earned a bachelor of science degree in elementary education. She taught elementary and middle school for five years. She is survived by her husband, Ellis Gordon, Jr., her daughter, the actress Maia Campbell, and a son, Ellis Gordon III.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Lorne Bair Rare Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 54877
- Title
- Sweet Summer: Growing Up With and Without My Dad (Signed Bookplate laid-in)
- Author
- CAMPBELL, Bebe Moore
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- G.P. Putnam's Sons
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1989
- Bookseller catalogs
- African-Americana;
Terms of Sale
Lorne Bair Rare Books
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About the Seller
Lorne Bair Rare Books
Biblio member since 2006
Winchester, Virginia
About Lorne Bair Rare Books
Lorne Bair Rare Books specializes in books, mansuscripts, and printed ephemera relating to American Social History, with an emphasis on radical and utopian movements of the 18th, 19th, and 20th centuries. We are available in our showroom by appointment, at shows, and on-line through various booksellers' sites or at our website www.lornebair.com.
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- Fine
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- Octavo
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- Spine
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- Gilt
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