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Iberia; Spanish Travels and Reflections
by Michener, James A
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- Fine
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Fine/very near Fine
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Madison, Wisconsin, United States
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About This Item
New York: Random House [1968], 1968. First printing. Hardcover. Fine/very near Fine. Large 8vo. [12], 5-818, [2] pp. Yellow cloth with gold lettering and decoration on the front board and spine, peach topstain. Price of $10.00 on front flap of dust jacket. Illustrated with numerous black and white photographs throughout, (photographs by Robert Vavra). Groseclose A.022.
Synopsis
James A. Michener was one of the world’s most popular writers, the author of more than forty books of fiction and nonfiction, including the Pulitzer Prize–winning Tales of the South Pacific, the bestselling novels The Source, Hawaii, Alaska, Chesapeake, Centennial, Texas, Caribbean, and Caravans, and the memoir The World Is My Home . Michener served on the advisory council to NASA and the International Broadcast Board, which oversees the Voice of America. Among dozens of awards and honors, he received America’s highest civilian award, the Presidential Medal of Freedom, in 1977, and an award from the President’s Committee on the Arts and Humanities in 1983 for his commitment to art in America. Michener died in 1997 at the age of ninety.
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- Bookseller
- Evening Star Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 00008260
- Title
- Iberia; Spanish Travels and Reflections
- Author
- Michener, James A
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine
- Jacket Condition
- very near Fine
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First printing
- Publisher
- Random House [1968]
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1968
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