London: Collins. Near Fine in Very Good+ dust jacket. 1981. First Edition. Hardcover. 000216521x . Winner of The Royal Society of Literature's Heinemann Award & the Thomas Cook Travel Book Award. "Ready to go wherever the current took him, he joined in with black Baptists in Memphis, with housewives in Pemiscot, hog-kings in Dubuque, a coon-hunt in Savanna, and fell for a girl in St Louis. Mr Raben is a born writer: his ear and eye are extraordinarily acute and he makes me laugh more than I have laughed before." Ships same or next business day. Text block is pulled away from spine head, minor edge wear, small bumps on spine ends, very faintly tanned on edges of pages; overall, book is clean and tight. Dust jacket protected in archival cover. DJ has minimal edge and shelf wear, small creases on spine ends, slightly faded on spine, faintly yellowed on plastic coating. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 527 pages .

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Bookseller: Good Books In The Woods (US)
Bookseller's Inventory #: 65379
Title: Old Glory An American Voyage
Author: Raban, Jonathan
Format/Binding: Hardcover
Book Condition: Used - Near Fine in Very Good+ dust jacket
Edition: First Edition
ISBN 10: 000216521X
ISBN 13: 9780002165211
Publisher: Collins
Place of Publication: London
Date Published: 1981
Keywords: 000216521x

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