The Basque Hotel Tapa dura - 1989

University of Nevada Press, 1989-09-01. Hardcover. Good. 0.8000 9.1000 6.0000. minor wear and creasing

University of Nevada Press, 1989. Hardcover. Acceptable. Readable copy. Pages may have considerable notes/highlighting. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed.

University of Nevada Press, 1989. Hardcover. Acceptable. Former library book; Readable copy. Pages may have considerable notes/highlighting. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed.

University of Nevada Press, 1989. Hardcover. Good. Former library book; Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed.

Reno. 1989. University of Nevada Press. 2nd Printing. Fraying To Top Spine, Otherwise Good in Worn Dustjacket With Some Tears & Pieces Missing. 0874171458. 124 pages. hardcover. keywords: Literature America Nevada Basque. FROM THE PUBLISHER - The time is the 1930s and the setting is a western frontier town of a few thousand people, with one dubious distinction. Carson City, Nevada, is the smallest capital in the United States. Pete's world is circumscribed by Main Street - shops and stores, a pool hall, boarding-house hotels, and a capitol whose main contribution is as a place of liquid shade and precious green grass in blistering summers. By far the most important event of the day is when the steam whistle of the V & T sounds, signaling thee passage of the shortline railway on its journey from Virginia City to Reno, ‘that impossibly big town of 20,000 people 30 miles away.' Pete's immigrant parents run the Basque Hotel, bed and meals, whiskey and wine in Prohibition time for… Leer más

Univ of Nevada Pr, September 1989. Hardcover . Very Good. Very Good Hardcover with Very Good Dustjacket. Light soiling and shelfwear to DJ. Light soiling and shelfwear to covers. Pages clean and tight in binding. Pictures available upon request. A locally owned, independent book shop since 1984.

University of Nevada Press, 1989-09. Hardcover. Good.

University of Nevada Press, 1989-09-01. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 9x6x0. Signed by Author. Minor wear to binding. Light wear & soiling on edges of text block. Signed by author on half title page. Price clipped dust jacket shows some light handling, in a mylar cover.

Reno & Las Vegas: University of Nevada Press, 1989. RARE unsigned!! copy of the first printing. Fine condition in a Near Fine dust jacket. The jacket has only a tiny bit of very light shelfwear. NO chips, tears or fading. Sharp corners. Square and reasonably tight. NO owner's name or bookplate. NOT a remainder. NOT a library discard. Pages are clean and unmarked. 1989. First printing of the First Edition with complete number row (987654321) on the copyright page. The author's 8th book. Bound in the original light blue cloth, stamped in black. From the dust jacket: "The time is the 1930s and the setting is a western frontier town of a few thousand people, with one dubious distinction. Carson City, Nevada, is the smallest capital in the United States. Pete's world is circumscribed by Main Street - shops and stores, a pool hall, boarding-house hotels, and a capitol whose main contribution is as a place of liquid shade and precious green grass in blistering summers. By… Leer más

Reno, NV: University of Nevada Press (1989).. First Edition . Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Blue cloth. 124 pages. Inscribed to previous owner and signed by Laxalt. Dust jacket has a couple of tiny tears and a small faint stain to rear panel. "This short, beautifully written, semiautobiographical novel is a small gem, a perfect example of a childhood tranquilly recollected." - PW