SHANNON
by Parks, Gordon
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/Near Fine
- ISBN 10
- 0316692492
- ISBN 13
- 9780316692496
- Seller
-
Lake Forest, Illinois, United States
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About This Item
Boston Toronto: Little, Brown and Company, 1981. First Edition [no printing indicated]. Cloth and boards. Very Good/Near Fine. SIGNED by the Author on the front free endpaper, tall 8vo, green 1/8th cloth with silver lettering over pale green boards, archival polyester-protected pictorial dust jacket (unclipped) depicting a mottled woman's face, handsome photo of Parks on rear panel, 402 pages. Weight: 1 lb. 15 oz. UNCOMMON SIGNED, solid copy without marks by previous owners. Principal defect is a series of smoothed previously dogeared pages (e.g., at pp.51, 65, 79, 103, 121, 131, 145, 155, 177, 241... 331). Dust jacket has light soil and edgewear.<br/> <br/> Shannon is a novel about Irish immigrants fighting their way up the social ladder in turbulent early 20th-century New York.<br/> <br/> Gordon Parks (1912 - 2006) was an American photographer, musician, writer and film director, who became prominent in U.S. documentary photojournalism in the 1940s through 1970sâparticularly in issues of civil rights, poverty and African-Americansâand in glamour photography.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Borg Antiquarian (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 7856
- Title
- SHANNON
- Author
- Parks, Gordon
- Format/Binding
- Cloth and boards
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Near Fine
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition [no printing indicated]
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 0316692492
- ISBN 13
- 9780316692496
- Publisher
- Little, Brown and Company
- Place of Publication
- Boston Toronto
- Date Published
- 1981
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
Borg Antiquarian
Biblio member since 2015
Lake Forest, Illinois
About Borg Antiquarian
BorgAntiquarian (ABAA & ILAB) is a dealer long engaged in selling exceptional collectibles: rare and fine books, autographs and manuscripts, fine art and artifacts. We are generalists in Americana, English & American literature, plus selected authors & important figures (Dickens & Darwin; presidents & 'signers'; scientists & historical figures; Revolutionary & Civil War militaria).
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