Spying on the South: An Odyssey Across the American Divide
by Horwitz, Tony
- Used
- Fine
- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- Fine/Fine
- ISBN 10
- 1101980281
- ISBN 13
- 9781101980286
- Seller
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Portland, Oregon, United States
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About This Item
New York: Penguin Press, 2019. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. The Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and historian explores Frederick Law Olmstead's journey through the South just before the Civil War. (Olmstead later became the great American landscape architect of the 19th century.)
Horwitz is probably best-known for Confederates in the Attic. First edition (first printing, with a numberline ending in 1). A fine copy in a fine dust jacket. Signed by Horwitz on the title page. Signed copies of this book are going to be scarce. Horwitz died suddenly at age 60, just two weeks after this book was published. This copy has excellent provenance, coming from the Parnassus Books first edition club, with their information sheet laid in.
Horwitz is probably best-known for Confederates in the Attic. First edition (first printing, with a numberline ending in 1). A fine copy in a fine dust jacket. Signed by Horwitz on the title page. Signed copies of this book are going to be scarce. Horwitz died suddenly at age 60, just two weeks after this book was published. This copy has excellent provenance, coming from the Parnassus Books first edition club, with their information sheet laid in.
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- Bookseller
- Downtown Brown Books, ABAA (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 362236
- Title
- Spying on the South: An Odyssey Across the American Divide
- Author
- Horwitz, Tony
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Fine
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- ISBN 10
- 1101980281
- ISBN 13
- 9781101980286
- Publisher
- Penguin Press
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 2019
- Keywords
- mf27
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