Farrar Straus & Giroux. Used - Very Good. 1968. Cloth, dj. 8vo. 250 pp. First printing. SOme shelf wear and slight soiling to dust jacket, with some chipping to spine and creasing to flaps. Mild discoloration and foxing to edges of text block. Text is clean and unmarked. Altogether a copy in Very Good condition. (Subject: Travel.)

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Bookseller: Powell's Bookstores Chicago (US)
Bookseller's Inventory #: Q08983
Title: A Roomful of Hovings and Other Profiles
Author: McPhee, John
Book Condition: Used - Very Good
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Farrar Straus & Giroux

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Text Block: Most simply the inside pages of a book. More precisely, the block of paper formed by the cut and stacked pages of a book....
Shelf Wear: Shelf wear (shelfwear) describes damage caused over time to a book by placing and removing a book from a shelf. This damage is...
Chipping: A defect in which small pieces are missing from the edges; fraying or small pieces of paper missing the edge of a paperback, or...
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