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Capable Of Honor: a new political novel
by Allen Drury
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- Fine
- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- Fine/Near Fine
- Seller
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Walcott, Iowa, United States
Item Price
CA$90.27CA$76.73
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About This Item
Doubleday & Company. New York. 1966. Fine First Edition (stated) with no subsequent printings listed. Date (1966) listed on both title page and copyright page. Publisher's gutter code H29 on page 531. Signed on second flyleaf by author. Black cloth boards with gilt lettering to spine. Unclipped ($5.95) jacket shows minor shelf wear and chipping to upper and lower spine, else fine. Jacket protected with removable mylar cover. Capable of Honor (COH) is the second sequel to Drury's Pulitzer Prize winning book Advise and Consent. How timely, COH looks at the role journalists play during a presidential campaign. 9.5x6.25 in. 531 pg.
Synopsis
Capable of Honor is a 1966 political novel written by Allen Drury. It is the second sequel to Advise and Consent, for which Drury was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1960. Capable of Honor examines the role that journalists play during a US presidential campaign.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Lamplighter Library
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 241
- Title
- Capable Of Honor
- Author
- Allen Drury
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Near Fine
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First
- Publisher
- Doubleday & Company
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1966
- Pages
- 531
- Size
- 8vo
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- Presidential campaign, journalist, Pulitzer Prize
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Lamplighter Library
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Walcott, Iowa
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