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Riding the Yellow Trolley Car: Selected Nonfiction
by KENNEDY, WILLIAM
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/Fine
- ISBN 10
- 0670842117
- ISBN 13
- 9780670842117
- Seller
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About This Item
U.S.A: Viking Press, 1993. First Trade Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Fine. 12mo - over 6. Type: Hardback First Printing of First Trade Edition. Hardcover Book in Very Good Condition with a Fine Jacket. Take a ride on a trolley car with William Kennedy and meet all sorts of folks, those you wouldn't expect to meet, in this rich collection of Kennedy's book reviews over the past thirty years--Hemingway, Steinbeck, Malamud, O'Hara, Llosa, Fuentes, Frank Sinatra, Saul Bellow, Samuel Beckett, Paul McCartney, and others. . Also includes literary essays on other authors, his own writing, jazz musicians, and including his unpublished to date interview with Robert Penn Warren and Gabriel Garcia Marquez who has two original drawings in this volume. Bright and clean black half cloth binding with bright and sharp gilt titles on spine, gold paper-wrapped boards, as new. Sound and tight sewn binding, square with sharp corners. Book has remainder mark on bottom edge, else Fine. Internals as new. 494 pages. 1993, Viking Press, New York, New York, USA
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- The Parnassus BookShop
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 014549
- Title
- Riding the Yellow Trolley Car: Selected Nonfiction
- Author
- KENNEDY, WILLIAM
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Fine
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Trade Edition
- ISBN 10
- 0670842117
- ISBN 13
- 9780670842117
- Publisher
- Viking Press
- Place of Publication
- U.S.A
- Date Published
- 1993
- Size
- 12mo - over 6
- Keywords
- AUTHORS WRITING ESSAYS LITERATURE
- Bookseller catalogs
- Literature;
- X weight
- 0 oz
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