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Unto the Sons

Unto the Sons

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Unto the Sons

by Talese, Gay

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  • Hardcover
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Condition
Very Good+ in Very Good+ dust jacket
ISBN 10
0679410341
ISBN 13
9780679410348
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Knopf. Very Good+ in Very Good+ dust jacket. 1992. First Edition. Hardcover. 0679410341 . Burgundy cloth covers with gilt titles to the spine. Very Good ++ with a tight binding and a bright, unmarked interior. Very light spine end bumping. The DJ is unclipped, in Very Good condition with light cover rubbing & edgewear. A few dots of foxing to the top fore edge. "Bestselling writer Gay Talese uses his own family history to tell the epic story of an Italian family over three generations. Moving from a tiny feudal village in southern Italy to the battlefields of the First World War, to Paris in the 1920s, and finally to the promised land of America, Unto the Sons is a brilliant mixture of history and story-telling. Talse carries us into the nineteenth- century patriarchal world of his great-grandfather in the village of Maida (after which London's Maida Vale was named) - a region immersed in the mysticism of the Church and haunted by echoes of Roman glory and the subsequent waves of foreign invasion. His story moves from Italy to America and back again as it follows the men of the village, among them the author's grandfather; 9.30 X 6.30 X 2 inches .

Synopsis

Unto the Sons is a 1992 book by Gay Talese. The book traces the origins of Talese's own family, beginning with his great-grandfather in Maida, Italy, his grandfather who immigrated to Pennsylvania and Talese's father, who immigrated to the United States separately following World War I.

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Bookseller
Bytown Bookery CA (CA)
Bookseller's Inventory #
13042
Title
Unto the Sons
Author
Talese, Gay
Format/Binding
Hardcover
Book Condition
Used - Very Good+ in Very Good+ dust jacket
Edition
First Edition
ISBN 10
0679410341
ISBN 13
9780679410348
Publisher
Knopf
Place of Publication
New York
Date Published
1992
Keywords
0679410341, Social History, Talese Family
Bookseller catalogs
Autobiography & Memoirs;

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Jacket
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Rubbing
Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.
Gilt
The decorative application of gold or gold coloring to a portion of a book on the spine, edges of the text block, or an inlay in...
Good+
A term used to denote a condition a slight grade better than Good.
Tight
Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
First Edition
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Spine
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Cloth
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Fore Edge
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