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TABLE OF CONTENTS.
by McPhee, John
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Near fine in a near fine dust jacket (gift inscription, short tear at fold of dj flap)/near fine
- ISBN 10
- 0374272417
- ISBN 13
- 9780374272418
- Seller
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Ione, California, United States
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About This Item
New York:: Farrar, Straus & Giroux,, (1985.). Hardcover first edition -. Near fine in a near fine dust jacket (gift inscription, short tear at fold of dj flap). First printing. A selection of 8 shorter pieces, originally published, as most of McPhee's work has been, in the New Yorker. They range from descriptions of the arrival of telephones in a small village in the Artic to the arrival of bears in New Jersey. Included is one of his best known pieces on the family practice medical speciality 'Heirs of General Practice' and the story of another John McPhee, a bush-pilot, writer and fish-and-game warden in northern Maine. 293 pp.
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- Bookseller
- Bookfever.com, IOBA (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 38201
- Title
- TABLE OF CONTENTS.
- Author
- McPhee, John
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover first edition -
- Book Condition
- Used - Near fine in a near fine dust jacket (gift inscription, short tear at fold of dj flap)
- Jacket Condition
- near fine
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 0374272417
- ISBN 13
- 9780374272418
- Publisher
- Farrar, Straus & Giroux,
- Place of Publication
- New York:
- Date Published
- (1985.)
- Keywords
- maine, arctic, hydroelectric power, bears, medicine,
- Bookseller catalogs
- Essays;
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