STEPPING WESTWARD.
by Bradbury, Malcolm
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Near fine in orange cloth in a fair only dust jacket with creasing, rubbing, chip to lower corner. /orange cloth in a fair only
- Seller
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Ione, California, United States
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About This Item
Boston:: Houghton Mifflin,, 1966.. Hardcover first edition -. Near fine in orange cloth in a fair only dust jacket with creasing, rubbing, chip to lower corner. . First US printing. The author's 2nd novel (fifth book), a satire on academia, the liberal arts and those who teach writing, published as Bradbury himself was finishing a year teaching in the United States. In this fictional version, a provincial British writer, barely eking out a livelihood, is offered the appointment of Creative Literary Fellow at Benedict Arnold University in the American heartland. 390 pp.
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- Bookseller
- Bookfever.com, IOBA (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 85431
- Title
- STEPPING WESTWARD.
- Author
- Bradbury, Malcolm
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover first edition -
- Book Condition
- Used - Near fine in orange cloth in a fair only dust jacket with creasing, rubbing, chip to lower corner.
- Jacket Condition
- orange cloth in a fair only
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Houghton Mifflin,
- Place of Publication
- Boston:
- Date Published
- 1966.
- Keywords
- satire, academia,
- Bookseller catalogs
- Modern first editions;
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