Patience & Fortitude
by Basbanes, Nicholas
- Used
- Very Good
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/Very Good
- ISBN 10
- 0060196955
- ISBN 13
- 9780060196950
- Seller
-
Sebastopol, California, United States
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About This Item
New York: HarperCollinsPublishers, 2001. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. First Edition, First Printing, SIGNED by Basbanes on half-title page. 636 pp. Index, bibliography, notes, illustrations. Author's second compilation (after A Gentle Madness) of lovingly researched profiles of bookish people and places, including Abel Berland, Nicholson Baker, Umberto Eco, Peter B. Howard of Serendipity, Barry Moser, Maurice Sendak and national librarians. 636. 9780060196950. Quarter cloth copper boards w/ copper gilt letters to black spine. Slight curve to rear pages due to dustjacket, bump to bottom rear board and tips, else very good in a very good mylar-covered dustjacket.
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Details
- Bookseller
- The Book Prowler (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 21791
- Title
- Patience & Fortitude
- Author
- Basbanes, Nicholas
- Format/Binding
- Hard Cover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 0060196955
- ISBN 13
- 9780060196950
- Publisher
- HarperCollinsPublishers
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 2001
- Keywords
- Books about Books|First Editions|Signed
- Bookseller catalogs
- SIGNED; Books on Books; First Editions;
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