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Praying for Rain
by Weidman, Jerome
- Used
- Fine
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Fine/Very Good
- ISBN 10
- 0060156589
- ISBN 13
- 9780060156589
- Seller
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About This Item
New York, New York, USA: Harper & Row Publishers, 1986. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Very Good. 8vo - over 7. Type: Hard Back First Printing Hardcover Book in FINE Condition with a Very Good Dust Jacket. Handsome binding of brown half cloth, gilt stamped, lighter brown boards; very clean and unmarked; tight & solid, square with sharp corners. Internals as new. Glossy, clean, unclipped dust jacket has slight rumpling of spine head and heel and a chip in the spine. A beguiling memoir by the novelist, playwright, essayist, film writer whose career began with "I Can Get It For You Wholesale", published in 1937--when he was still working as an office boy/secretary earning $11 a week, at 24 years of age. 422 pages. 9.5 x 6.5 inches. 1986, Harper & Row Publishers, New York, New York, USA
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- Bookseller
- The Parnassus BookShop
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 019697
- Title
- Praying for Rain
- Author
- Weidman, Jerome
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- ISBN 10
- 0060156589
- ISBN 13
- 9780060156589
- Publisher
- Harper & Row Publishers
- Place of Publication
- New York, New York, USA
- Date Published
- 1986
- Size
- 8vo - over 7
- Keywords
- AUTHORS NOVELISTS PLAYWRIGHT FILM WRITER ESSAYIST MEMOIR
- Bookseller catalogs
- Plays,Drama,Theatre;
- X weight
- 0 oz
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- Fine
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