Mirage
by Wolde Ayele (AUTHOR SIGNED?)
- Used
- Paperback
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- Good +/No Jacket
- ISBN 10
- 0961693908
- ISBN 13
- 9780961693909
- Seller
-
WINFIELD, Kansas, United States
Item Price
CA$27.58CA$19.31
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About This Item
Houston, TX: Hothouse, 1986 Hothouse, Houston, TX. 1986. Softcover/Trade Wraps/French Wraps. First Edition. Inscribed by the author on the FFFP?/No comparable available. Book is tight, square, and unmarked. Book Condition: Good +; smudge on front wrap; sunfaded spine; rubbing to wraps. No DJ. Pictorial card stock wraps. Wraps are not bent or folded; spine is not creased or split; text is secure in binding. 65 pp 16mo. The author is an architecture student in Houston and in the USA for the first time who kept an urban diary of all his experiences in hit "adopted" city of Houston during that big oil crisis of 1985. Written in a stream of consciousness manner he tells a great deal about the city and it surroundings through the fresh eyes of an emigrant. A clean very presentable copy.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Walnut Valley Books/Books by White (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 017037
- Title
- Mirage
- Author
- Wolde Ayele (AUTHOR SIGNED?)
- Format/Binding
- Soft cover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good +
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Paperback
- ISBN 10
- 0961693908
- ISBN 13
- 9780961693909
- Publisher
- Hothouse
- Place of Publication
- Houston, TX
- Date Published
- 1986
- Size
- 16mo - over 5¾ - 6¾
- Keywords
- Houston Texas, Travelogue of Houston, Wolde Ayele, Mirage, personal essay of Houston, Ethiopia, Addis Ababa, Civil War, Red Terror, Mexico City, cultural history of Houston.
- Bookseller catalogs
- Autobiography; African Matters;
Terms of Sale
Walnut Valley Books/Books by White
30 day return guarantee, with full refund including original shipping costs for up to 30 days after delivery if an item arrives misdescribed or in the unfortunate event, damaged. All books are packed and wrapped with care to avoid shifting during shipment and edge/tip strikes during the mailing process.
About the Seller
Walnut Valley Books/Books by White
Biblio member since 2018
WINFIELD, Kansas
About Walnut Valley Books/Books by White
Walnut Valley Books is a small independent home-based business with the bulk of my holdings being of an American military nature covering everything from the Revolutionary War to the current wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. I also have holdings of books on the Middle East, the southwestern United States (New Mexico especially, Kansas related titles, Oklahoma related titles, and other regionally specialized books. All of my holdings are hand-selected to be good quality books of interest to the reader, historian, or the collector. In addition to the above, you will also find a wide range of other topics such as Medical, US History, autobiographical, biographical, sports, women's studies, and many other eclectic topics.
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