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The World is My Home: A Memoir
by MICHENER, JAMES A
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/Very Good
- ISBN 10
- 0679401342
- ISBN 13
- 9780679401346
- Seller
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About This Item
USA: Random House, 1992. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo - over 7? - 9?" tall. Type: Hardback First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover Book and Dust Jacket in Very Good Condition. In this vivid memoir, James Michener describes the people, events, and ideas that have shaped his life. He writes of his passion for travel; his lifelong love for literature, music and painting; his liberal credo and his adventures in politics; of the hard work, headaches, and rewards of the writing life. Here you will meet James Michener, a man whose home is the world. Bound in blue half cloth w/gilt titles, white boards, very clean and unmarked, tight and solid volume. Light wear to lower corners; top edge of text block has colorless spotting. Clean jacket is not price-clipped, slight wear to upper corner and spine head. Eight -page Illustration section after page 216. Remainder Dot on lower edge. Interesting maps on the endpapers of The Writer's World, places Michener has lived or visited, 519 pages. 9.5 x 6.5 inches. 1992, Random House, New York, New York, USA
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- Bookseller
- The Parnassus BookShop
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 023288
- Title
- The World is My Home: A Memoir
- Author
- MICHENER, JAMES A
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- ISBN 10
- 0679401342
- ISBN 13
- 9780679401346
- Publisher
- Random House
- Place of Publication
- USA
- Date Published
- 1992
- Size
- 8vo - over 7? - 9?" tall
- Keywords
- MICHENER, JAMES, 1907-1997 AUTOBIOGRAPHY AUTHORS
- Bookseller catalogs
- Biography. Autobiography;
- X weight
- 0 oz
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