Fabricating Lives: Explorations in American Autobiography
by Leibowitz, Herbert
- Used
- Fine
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Fine/very good
- ISBN 10
- 0394574281
- ISBN 13
- 9780394574288
- Seller
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Lansdowne, Pennsylvania, United States
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About This Item
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1989. Hardcover. Fine/very good. [2], xxv, [1], 386, [2] p.: illustrations; 24 cm. Red and white cover with gilt spine title and author's initials on front cover. Dust jacket with jacket illustration by Mark D. Summers. Stated First Edition. "In this fresh and provocative approach to the reading of autobiography, Herbert Leibowitz explores the self-portraits of eight Americans": Benjamin Franklin, Louis Sullivan, Jane Addams, Emma Goldman, Gertrude Stein, William Carlos Williams, Richard Wright, and Edward Dahlberg. Book is in Fine Condition: clean and tight. Dust jacket is in Very Good Condition: lightly soiled; minor loss at lower edge of back section; lower edge of front section creased with closed 1-cm. tear.
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- Bookseller
- Classic Books and Ephemera (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 009530
- Title
- Fabricating Lives: Explorations in American Autobiography
- Author
- Leibowitz, Herbert
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine
- Jacket Condition
- very good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- ISBN 10
- 0394574281
- ISBN 13
- 9780394574288
- Publisher
- Alfred A. Knopf
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1989
- Bookseller catalogs
- American History; Women Writers;
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