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Letourneau's Used Auto Parts
by Chute, Carolyn
- Used
- Condition
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- Seller
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Scottsdale, Arizona, United States
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About This Item
New York: Ticknor & Fields, 1988. First Edtiion. Octavo. Signed by the author. 244pp., The author's second book. A story about Miracle City, a squalid jumble of unpainted shacks and trailers that is nonetheless a welcome haven to the residents of this poverty-stricken community. The area's most important citizen is the eponymous Big Lucien Letourneau, who runs the auto salvage junkyard at which most of the men work. It's a brutal life. There are times when Lucien can't afford to pay his men but he does have a heart fo gold. He is said to be a one-man welfare system, sheltering the destitute, homeless and elderly. Bound in green paper covered boards backed in black cloth, spine lettering gilt. A fine bright copy in near fine unclipped pictorial dust jacket showing minute rubbing to corners.
Synopsis
In this “assured, complex and memorable tale” (Publishers Weekly), Chute once again makes a tiny corner of the world her own,a kind of Oz turned upside down with a wizard named Big Lucien, head of the Letourneau clan, another ragtag family that inhabits Egypt, Maine, and the nearby Miracle City.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Alcuin Books, ABAA-ILAB
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 021723
- Title
- Letourneau's Used Auto Parts
- Author
- Chute, Carolyn
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edtiion
- Publisher
- Ticknor & Fields
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1988
- Keywords
- First Edition 1st Signed Dust Jacket
Terms of Sale
Alcuin Books, ABAA-ILAB
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About the Seller
Alcuin Books, ABAA-ILAB
Biblio member since 2006
Scottsdale, Arizona
About Alcuin Books, ABAA-ILAB
Alcuin Books located in Old Town Scottsdale is a store with 15,000 serious books for the collector or scholar. We have ample parking in front of the store for those who wish to browse our holdings.
Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- Rubbing
- Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Octavo
- Another of the terms referring to page or book size, octavo refers to a standard printer's sheet folded four times, producing...
- Spine
- The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....
- Fine
- A book in fine condition exhibits no flaws. A fine condition book closely approaches As New condition, but may lack the...
- Gilt
- The decorative application of gold or gold coloring to a portion of a book on the spine, edges of the text block, or an inlay in...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
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