Bailey's Cafe
by Naylor, Gloria
- Used
- Very Good
- Paperback
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/No Jacket as Issued
- Seller
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La Porte, Texas, United States
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About This Item
San Diego, California, USA: Harcourt Trade Publishers, 1992. BX5 - A first edition advance reading copy (ARC)/uncorrected proof book in very good condition with no dust jacket as issued. An unread, tight, clean, sound copy in color wraps with minor overall shelf wear plus some very light creasing of the front cover plus some very light soiling of the bottom right corner of the outside paper edges. A novel by a notable African American author. It has been described as a blues tapestry of America. This is the story of a couple and the cafe they run. It draws in a wide variety of society's rejects. The cafe exists in 1948 but the story moves back in time, sometimes centuries, as it looks at the stories of people, usually of color, down on their luck By the author of "The Women of Brewster Place," "Linden Hills," and "Mama Day." The author is a winner of the American Book Award for First Fiction. 200p.. Trade Paperback. Very Good/No Jacket as Issued. 6"x9". Advance Reading Copy (ARC).
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- Seller
- Bookmarc's
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- Seller's Inventory #
- SCW02321
- Title
- Bailey's Cafe
- Author
- Naylor, Gloria
- Format/Binding
- Paperback
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket as Issued
- Publisher
- Harcourt Trade Publishers
- Place of Publication
- San Diego, California, USA
- Date Published
- 1992
- Keywords
- Fiction General Fiction Literary Novel Literature Literary Fiction African American Author Woman Author Women Authors Advance Reading Copy ARC Uncorrected Proofs
- Bookseller catalogs
- Literature / African-American Literature;
- Size
- 6"x9"
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