The World Is My Home: A Memoir
by Michener, James A
- Used
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- Burgundy-colored cloth boards with gilt signature and band on front cover and black label with gilt lettering on spine; fine. Ho
- Seller
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New York, New York, United States
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Synopsis
James A. Michener was one of the world’s most popular writers, the author of more than forty books of fiction and nonfiction, including the Pulitzer Prize–winning Tales of the South Pacific, the bestselling novels The Source, Hawaii, Alaska, Chesapeake, Centennial, Texas, Caribbean, and Caravans, and the memoir The World Is My Home . Michener served on the advisory council to NASA and the International Broadcast Board, which oversees the Voice of America. Among dozens of awards and honors, he received America’s highest civilian award, the Presidential Medal of Freedom, in 1977, and an award from the President’s Committee on the Arts and Humanities in 1983 for his commitment to art in America. Michener died in 1997 at the age of ninety.
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- Bookseller
- James Cummins Bookseller (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 351735
- Title
- The World Is My Home: A Memoir
- Author
- Michener, James A
- Format/Binding
- Map endpapers. 519 pp. 1 vols. 8vo
- Book Condition
- Used - Burgundy-colored cloth boards with gilt signature and band on front cover and black label with gilt lettering on spine; fine. Ho
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First edition, no. 277 of 500 copies specially bound, numbered a
- Publisher
- Random House
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1992
- Keywords
- American
- Bookseller catalogs
- Literature;
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