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Family Portraits: Remembrances by Twenty Distinguished Writers
by Anthony, Carolyn--Editor
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- Fine
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Fine/Very Good
- ISBN 10
- 0385264151
- ISBN 13
- 9780385264150
- Seller
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About This Item
New York: Doubleday, 1989. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Very Good. 8vo - over 7?" - 9?" tall. Type: Hardback First Printing. Hardcover in Fine Condition with a VG Jacket. Important writers of our times remember a special person who had a profound influence on their early lives, and pay tribute to family members who had a major influence on their lives. Includes such writers as Margaret Atwood, Daniel Boorstein, Alfred Kazin, Isaac Bashevis Singer and many others. Book is clean, bright, tight and unmarked in a white half-cloth with silver-green titles, spring green Interior is immaculate. Jacket is clean and bright, tiny closed tear on front lower spine edge, else Fine. 328 pages. Doubleday, New York, 1989.
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- Bookseller
- The Parnassus BookShop
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 010379
- Title
- Family Portraits: Remembrances by Twenty Distinguished Writers
- Author
- Anthony, Carolyn--Editor
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- ISBN 10
- 0385264151
- ISBN 13
- 9780385264150
- Publisher
- Doubleday
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1989
- Size
- 8vo - over 7?" - 9?" t
- Keywords
- LITERARY. AUTHORS-20TH CENTURY- AMERICAN; BIOGRAPHY; WRITERS;
- Bookseller catalogs
- Biography. Autobiography;
- X weight
- 0 oz
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