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OUT AT HOME
by Pomeranz, Gary
- Used
- Fine
- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- Fine/Near Fine
- ISBN 10
- 0395369800
- ISBN 13
- 9780395369807
- Seller
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Lake Forest, Illinois, United States
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About This Item
Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1985. First Edition, First Printing. Cloth and boards. Fine/Near Fine. SIGNED by the Author on the front free endpaper, 8vo, tan quarter cloth with green lettering on spine over light green boards, archival mylar-protected pictorial dust jacket (price-clipped) depicting the author at home plate, tan endpapers, 231 pages. Author's first novel: Recreates Chicago and a love of baseball and the Cubs during the Fifties.<br/> <br/> Gary M. Pomerantz (born 1960) is an American journalist, lecturer, die-hard Cubs fan, and New York Times best-selling author. He lectures in the graduate program in journalism at Stanford University. His books include Where Peachtree Meets Sweet Auburn (1996 New York Times Notable Book of the Year), a multi-generational biography of Atlanta, Georgia and its racial conscience. <br/> <br/> Tight, clean copy. Slight edgewear andt races of toning to the price-clipped dust jacket. No previous owner or remainder marks.
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- Bookseller
- Borg Antiquarian
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 8156
- Title
- OUT AT HOME
- Author
- Pomeranz, Gary
- Format/Binding
- Cloth and boards
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Near Fine
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition, First Printing
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 0395369800
- ISBN 13
- 9780395369807
- Publisher
- Houghton Mifflin Company
- Place of Publication
- Boston
- Date Published
- 1985
- Keywords
- BASEBALL, Chicago, Cubs, 1955, suburbia, Jewish, crime, nostalgia, Lincoln Park, family
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About the Seller
Borg Antiquarian
Biblio member since 2015
Lake Forest, Illinois
About Borg Antiquarian
BorgAntiquarian (ABAA & ILAB) is a dealer long engaged in selling exceptional collectibles: rare and fine books, autographs and manuscripts, fine art and artifacts. We are generalists in Americana, English & American literature, plus selected authors & important figures (Dickens & Darwin; presidents & 'signers'; scientists & historical figures; Revolutionary & Civil War militaria).
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