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From the Heartland: Profiles of People and Places of the Southwest and Beyond
by Powell, Lawrence Clark
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- first
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- Seller
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Scottsdale, Arizona, United States
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About This Item
Flagstaff, AZ; (1976): Northland Press. First Edition. Octavo. 167pp. illustrated by Bettina Steinke. Warmly inscribed and signed by Powell on the half-title.Powell writes about those writers of New Mexico and Arizona; Henry Miller, Gertrude Stein, Edward Abbey, Frank Waters, Godfrey Sykes, Maynard Dixon, Saul Marks and Jake Zeitlin. Bound in gray cloth, spine lettering gilt, near fine in near fine uncipped brown dust jacket lettered and decorated in dark brown and gilt.
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- Bookseller
- Alcuin Books, ABAA-ILAB
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 000119
- Title
- From the Heartland: Profiles of People and Places of the Southwest and Beyond
- Author
- Powell, Lawrence Clark
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- Northland Press
- Place of Publication
- Flagstaff, AZ; (1976)
- Keywords
- Edward Abbey, Maynard Dixon, Henry Miller, Jake Zeitlin
- Bookseller catalogs
- Arizona; Lawrence Clark Powell;
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Alcuin Books, ABAA-ILAB
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Scottsdale, Arizona
About Alcuin Books, ABAA-ILAB
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