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Sailing Too Far
by Milton Kessler
- Used
- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- Very Good +/very good
- ISBN 10
- 0060123540
- ISBN 13
- 9780060123543
- Seller
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About This Item
New York: Harper & Row, 1974. First edition. Hardcover. Very Good +/very good. First edition, 1974. Small 8vo, hardcover, vii, 86 pp. Book is warmly inscribed by author Inscribed by the author to Paul Cubeta on half title page. Otherwise pages are clean and unmarked. Paul Cubeta was the assistant director of the Bread Loaf Writers' Conference, and inscription is dated "with affectionate regards all the way from Bread Loaf '61." Book is Very Good+, with foxing to top edge of text block. Dust jacket is Very Good, with light rubbing to crown and foot of spine and to tips. Dust jacket is housed in archival dust jacket protector. In addition to his role as assistant director, Paul Cubeta (1925-2012) was the director of The Bread Loaf School of English at Middlebury College from 1964-1989.
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- Common Crow Books
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- d0011917
- Title
- Sailing Too Far
- Author
- Milton Kessler
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good +
- Jacket Condition
- very good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First edition
- ISBN 10
- 0060123540
- ISBN 13
- 9780060123543
- Publisher
- Harper & Row
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1974
- Keywords
- Bread Loaf Writers Conference, Middlebury College, writers colony
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