Booking in the Heartland. by MATTHEWS, Jack - (1986).

Johns Hopkins University Press, 1978. Hardcover. Very Good. Former library book; May have limited writing in cover pages. Pages are unmarked. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed.

Johns Hopkins University Press, 1978. Hardcover. Good. Disclaimer:A copy that has been read, but remains in clean condition. All pages are intact, and the cover is intact. The spine may show signs of wear. Pages can include limited notes and highlighting, and the copy can include previous owner inscriptions. An ex-library book and may have standard library stamps and/or stickers. At ThriftBooks, our motto is: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed.

Johns Hopkins University Press. Used - Good. Former library book; may include library markings. Used book that is in clean, average condition without any missing pages.

Baltimore, Maryland, U.S.A.: Johns Hopkins Univ Pr, 1986. First Edition/First Printing . Hardcover. Very Good+/Very Good+.

Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, (1986). First Edition. Octavo, red & decorated black cloth (hardcover), ix + 161 pp. Fine in a Near-Fine, mylar protected dust jacket. From dust jacket: When I buy an old book,” writes Jack Matthews, “two histories converge. This is not peculiar to books -- when two people come together, they are two pasts meeting.” In Booking in the HEartland such meetings provide Jack Matthews with the occasion for meditations as delightfully miscellaneous as a yard sale booksehlf, meditations at once personal and philosphical in the broadest sense. Readers know Jack Matthews primarily as a writer of fiction, but he is also a confessed “bibliomaniac,” specializing in Americana. This avocation takes him 30,000 miles a year, to auctions, antique shops, and flea markets. There he finds records of other journeys: a diary from an 1853 trip to California on which “the count of graves per day is a sort of odometer”; a sixteen-year-old deckhand’s… Read More

Baltimore:: Johns Hopkins University Press,. Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket. 1986. Hardcover. 0801833329 . First edition. Near fine in a near fine (light edge wear) dust jacket. .

Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1986. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Very Good. 1st printing. Cloth. 161pp. A good book reflecting intellectually on books, book collecting, and book hunting. The author credentials as an English prof at Ohio University comes through. Fine in vg+ dj.

Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1986. 1st edition/1st printing; cloth backed boards, hardcover; ix, 161 pages; a very good, clean, tight copy in a very good dustjacket.

Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1986. 1st Edition. Hardcover. 161p. A hardcover book in fine condition with a very good dustjacket. The book is unmarked and tightly bound. The jacket is sunfaded and mildly edgeworn. A memoir by an Ohio book collector.

Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1986. Hardcover. Fine/Very Good. First edition. Fine in very good dustwrapper. Hardcover is a nice clean copy, like new. Dustwrapper slightly rubbed at spine ends and corners. Please Note: This book has been transferred to Between the Covers from another database and might not be described to our usual standards. Please inquire for more detailed condition information.