A Book About Billie
by Miller, Billie & Helwig, David
- Used
- good
- Paperback
- Condition
- Good
- ISBN 10
- 0887500692
- ISBN 13
- 9780887500695
- Seller
-
Campbellcroft, Ontario, Canada
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About This Item
Toronto: Oberon Press. Good. 1972. Softcover. 0887500692 . 170 p. 20 cm. Sound and square binding in cardstock covers. Spine heavily faded. Wear to the corners and edges. Bottom fore-corner is lightly bumped, affecting the text block and covers. Rubbed with some soft creases. Previous owner's name markered out on the half title page. Otherwise, the inside pages are clean and unmarked. An account of a life of crime as told by Billie Miller, booster, pimp, and junkie. Canadian author David Helwig spent a summer with Billie while he was on parole and who took on the task to tell Miller's story. .
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- Bookseller
- Homeward Bound Books (CA)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 5169
- Title
- A Book About Billie
- Author
- Miller, Billie & Helwig, David
- Format/Binding
- Softcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Binding
- Paperback
- ISBN 10
- 0887500692
- ISBN 13
- 9780887500695
- Publisher
- Oberon Press
- Place of Publication
- Toronto
- Date Published
- 1972
- Keywords
- 0887500692
- Bookseller catalogs
- Biography;
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About the Seller
Homeward Bound Books
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Campbellcroft, Ontario
About Homeward Bound Books
Homeward Bound Books is an online bookshop operated from our home in the Municipality of Port Hope, Ontario. We specialize in children's and illustrated books – collectible and reading copies; and local histories, particularly for Ontario. We also stock a selection of collectable mystery fiction, ephemera, and any other titles we find interesting or unusual. We have thousands of books yet to be catalogued. So, please contact us to be added to our client list, and we will let you know when we have books of interest to you. It is our pleasure to send books homeward bound -- from our shelves to yours.
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- 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....
- Title Page
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- Edges
- The collective of the top, fore and bottom edges of the text block of the book, being that part of the edges of the pages of a...
- Half Title
- The blank front page which appears just prior to the title page, and typically contains only the title of the book, although, at...
- Text Block
- Most simply the inside pages of a book. More precisely, the block of paper formed by the cut and stacked pages of a book....