Maps and Legends: reading and writing along the borderlands
by Michael Chabon
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- as new
- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- As New/Fine
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Spray, Oregon, United States
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About This Item
San Francisco, California: McSweeney's, 2008. First Edition. Hardcover. As New/Fine. 8vo 8" - 9" tall. Signed by Author. SIGNED by Michael Chabon, on his PERSONAL BOOKPLATE (!] pasted onto first free endpaper. As New in a like dust jacket, a marvelously well crafted hardcover copy, hand-sewn binding, custom-crafted dust jacket, Brodart-protected. This is Chabon's first collection of non-fiction musings and essays, bound with black cloth over boards, silver lettering thereto, and augmented greatly with a beautifully produced triple-layer dust jacket that really makes it sit up and bark. [12], 13-222 pp., and laid in from the publisher is a note on card stock noting that this is his first work of non-fiction.Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. Additional postage may be required for oversize or especially heavy volumes, and for sets.
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- Bookseller
- Structure, Verses, Agency Books - Member, I.O.B.A. (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 350599
- Title
- Maps and Legends: reading and writing along the borderlands
- Author
- Michael Chabon
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- New As New
- Jacket Condition
- Fine
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- McSweeney's
- Place of Publication
- San Francisco, California
- Date Published
- 2008
- Size
- 8vo 8" - 9" tall
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- signed|Michael Chabon|reading|writing
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