Telling Lives: The Biographer's Art
by Pachter, Marc (editor)
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good+/Good
- ISBN 10
- 0915220547
- ISBN 13
- 9780915220540
- Seller
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Lukeville , Arizona, United States
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About This Item
Washington DC, New Republic Books, 1979, hardcover, 151 pp, First Edition, First Printing, Very Good+ in Good dustjacket. Straight, tight and clean with no markings, slight spine-end wear. Dustjacket unclipped bearing original price, edge nicks, small edge chips, short closed edge tears, displays well in new Brodart sleeve. In Telling Lives seven of the most honored biographers of our time examine the joys, limitations, and challenges of defining a life. Contributors include; Leon Edel, Justin Kaplan, Alfred Kazin, Doris Kearns, Theodore Rosengarten, Barbara Tuchman and Geoffrey Wolff. Appended: Notes on the Contributors. ISBN 9780915220540
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- Bookseller
- West of Eden Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 8064
- Title
- Telling Lives: The Biographer's Art
- Author
- Pachter, Marc (editor)
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good+
- Jacket Condition
- Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition, First Printing
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 0915220547
- ISBN 13
- 9780915220540
- Publisher
- New Republic Books
- Place of Publication
- New York, New York, U.s.a.
- This edition first published
- 1979
- Keywords
- Addresses, essays, lectures; Biography (as a literary form); Biography as a literary form; Composition & Creative Writing; Language Arts & Disciplines
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