New York: Dodd, Mead & Company, 1976 WYSIWYG pricing--no added shipping charge for standard shipping within USA. Inscribed by author on half-title. Salmon cloth, gold ink titles on spine, blue endpapers, vi, 276 pp, 20 full-page b & w drawings. DJ has faint damp stains along top edge, tears to 3 cm, a small chip to bottom of front fore-edge; in Brodart archival cover. Warmly inscribed and dated in Dec. 1979 by author & signed by illustrator on half-title. Caldwell travels through & comments on places on the "afternoon side" of the Mississippi River. From the DJ: "Punctuated by a running commentary in letters to a friend in France, his own observations and impressions are enriched by vividly reported conversations with local inhabitants: teacher, farmer, student, storekeeper, gas station owner, restaurant hostess, oilman....These give insight into varied ways of life--from an abandoned village to a thriving oil-rich metropolis, from the dustbowl area to fertile plains, from the squalor of the Indian reservation to the antiseptic chambers of the world-famous Mayo Clinic." Shipping weight 2 lbs.. . Fine/VG. Illus. by Virginia M. Caldwell. 21½ X 14½ cm.

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Bookseller: Twin City Antiquarian Books (US)
Bookseller's Inventory #: TRUS00007
Title: Afternoons in Mid-America
Author: Caldwell, Erskine
Illustrator: Virginia M. Caldwell
Format/Binding: Hardcover
Book Condition: Used - Fine
Jacket Condition: VG
ISBN 10: 0396073484
ISBN 13: 9780396073482
Publisher: Dodd, Mead & Company
Place of Publication: New York
Date Published: 1976
Keywords: Travel United States Middle West Midwest
Bookseller catalogs: Travel;
X weight: 32 oz
Size: 21½ X 14½ cm

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