Back There Where the Past Was (INSCRIBED): A Small-Town Boyhood (York State Books)
by Charles Champlin
- Used
- as new
- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- As New/As New
- ISBN 10
- 0815602359
- ISBN 13
- 9780815602354
- Seller
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Tempe, Arizona, United States
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About This Item
For Charles Champlin, formerly a writer-correspondent for Time and Life magazines and since 1965 an editor and columnist for the Los Angeles Times, his "other time" was the nineteen-thirties. His "other place," where he was born and spent his boyhood and early adolescence, was the lovely Finger Lakes village of Hammondsport in western New York State. Its population was, and is, 1,200, and it was a fine place to grow Keuka Lake to swim in, band concerts in the park on Saturday nights, wagonloads of grapes rumbling through town to the wineries, which continue to make fine champagnes and wines. Glenn Hammond Curtiss manufactured airplanes there in the early years of the century, and in the thirties you could watch planes practice looping the loop on summer afternoons. Over the years, Champlin's reminiscences about Hammondsport in his newspaper columns have evoked warm response. Readers who grew up thousands of miles from Steuben County, New York, say they find echoes of their own times and their own places in his tales of home.
INSCRIBED by the author to an author on the FFEP
"For Dean Smith - To a fellow writer with admiration and warm regards, Charles Champlin"
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- Bookseller
- Nostalgic Books & Elements (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 23pastwas1989
- Title
- Back There Where the Past Was (INSCRIBED)
- Author
- Charles Champlin
- Book Condition
- New As New
- Jacket Condition
- As New
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 0815602359
- ISBN 13
- 9780815602354
- Publisher
- Syracuse University Press
- Place of Publication
- Syracuse, Ny
- Date Published
- 1989
- Keywords
- biography New York Finger Lakes Hammondsport
- Bookseller catalogs
- SIGNED Books For Collectors; Non Fiction; Biography; Nostalgia;
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About Nostalgic Books & Elements
NB&E, prides itself on rescuing unique and nostalgic books that sometimes include an element. I provide detailed descriptions, multiple photographs, and wrap most dust jacket in a protective sleeve.
Books are noted as either SIGNED or INSCRIBED accordingly. If the book is a remainder or ex-library it is noted. I seldom, if ever, sell these types of books. I CHERISH books and want to provide you with the books you will be proud to own.
With gratitude,
Janice Dawson
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