Taking Retirement: A Beginner's Diary
by Klaus, Carl H
- Used
- Hardcover
- Signed
- Condition
- Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket
- ISBN 10
- 0807072184
- ISBN 13
- 9780807072189
- Seller
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Iowa City, Iowa, United States
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
Boston: Beacon Press, 1999. First Printing. Hardcover. Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket. Signed by the author, on the half-title page, with the date and a startling inscription to a named individual ("...with great gratitude for saving my life"). Crisp, clean pages; hard cover is somewhat softened at spine ends, and dust jacket shows two faint spots at the lower right front and minor crimping at two corners and at the spine heel, otherwise well-kept. Jacket is now protected in a clear sleeve. 239pp.; Signed by Author.
Synopsis
Carl Klaus, author of My Vegetable Love and Weathering Winter , is founder of the nonfiction writing program at the University of Iowa. He lives in Iowa City.
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Details
- Bookseller
- The Haunted Bookshop, LLC (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 00082440
- Title
- Taking Retirement: A Beginner's Diary
- Author
- Klaus, Carl H
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Printing
- ISBN 10
- 0807072184
- ISBN 13
- 9780807072189
- Publisher
- Beacon Press
- Place of Publication
- Boston
- Date Published
- 1999
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
The Haunted Bookshop, LLC
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Iowa City, Iowa
About The Haunted Bookshop, LLC
The Haunted Bookshop is an open shop with over 40,000 quality used, out-of-print, and antiquarian titles for students, scholars, collectors, artists, families and children. The store has been in business for over 35 years, now in a historic home near downtown Iowa City. Our open hours are 10-8 daily.
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- Fine
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- Crisp
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