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Motel of the Mysteries
by Macaulay, David
- Used
- very good
- Paperback
- First
- Condition
- Very Good
- ISBN 10
- 0395284252
- ISBN 13
- 9780395284254
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About This Item
Boston, MA, U.S.A.: Houghton Mifflin, 1979. Oversized paperback, 96 pages including Macaulay's quirky black-and-white illustrations throughout; light rubbing to exterior, spine and back cover flat/uncreased, vertical crease down centre of front cover, very tiny ink name inside front cover, otherwise very clean and unmarked. . First Edition. Soft Cover. Very Good. Illus. by Macaulay, David.
Synopsis
It is the year 4022; all of the ancient country of Usa has been buried under many feet of detritus from a catastrophe that occurred back in 1985. Imagine, then, the excitement that Howard Carson, an amateur archeologist at best, experienced when in crossing the perimeter of an abandoned excavation site he felt the ground give way beneath him and found himself at the bottom of a shaft, which, judging from the DO NOT DISTURB sign hanging from an archaic doorknob, was clearly the entrance to a still-sealed burial chamber. Carson's incredible discoveries, including the remains of two bodies, one of then on a ceremonial bed facing an altar that appeared to be a means of communicating with the Gods and the other lying in a porcelain sarcophagus in the Inner Chamber, permitted him to piece together the whole fabric of that extraordinary civilization.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Eric James
(CA)
- Bookseller Inventory #
- 042230
- Title
- Motel of the Mysteries
- Author
- Macaulay, David
- Illustrator
- Macaulay, David
- Format/binding
- Paperback
- Book condition
- Used - Very Good
- Edition
- First Edition
- Binding
- Paperback
- ISBN 10
- 0395284252
- ISBN 13
- 9780395284254
- Publisher
- Houghton Mifflin
- Place of Publication
- Boston, MA, U.S.A.
- Date published
- 1979
- Keywords
- BUILDING JUVENILE LITERATURE NONFICTION ARCHITECTURE ENGINEERING CONSTRUCTION Education Satire Humor Humour Spoof
- Bookseller catalogs
- Juvenile Fiction; Juvenile Nonfiction; Children's Fiction;
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