A Bridge of Childhood: Truman Capote's Southern Years de Marianne M. Moates - 1989-12

Holt & Company, Henry, 1989. Hardcover. Acceptable. Disclaimer:A readable copy. All pages are intact, and the cover is intact. Pages can include considerable notes-in pen or highlighter-but the notes cannot obscure the text. At ThriftBooks, our motto is: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed.

Henry Holt & Co, December 1989. Hardcover. Good/Good. Jacket has mild rubs and edgewear including few microtears, cover shows trace edgewear, spine straight, binding tight; pages and endpages clean, bright and tight without marks or crease, appears as unread and in very good condition.

New York: Henry Holt, 1989 Hb. VG-/VG-. 1st. 1st edition; 240pp; index; wear extremiteis; corners bumped; edges of boards lightly faded. dj: wear extremities; tubbing; front flap clipped; chipping. F. Hardcover.

New York, NY Henry Holt & Company, 1989. Hardcover First Edition (1989); Second Printing. Near Fine in Very Good DJ: The Book shows a small, rather faint coffee stain at the top of the fore-edge; a bit of faint discoloration at the upper front panel; else flawless; the binding is square and secure; the text is clean. Free of any ownership names, dates, addresses, notations, inscriptions, stamps, plates, or labels. A handsome, nearly-new copy, structurally sound and tighly bound, showing only a couple of very minor flaws. Very close to 'As New'. The DJ shows light wear to extremities, with a one-inch closed tear and several tiny tears along the top edge, which have been neatly repaired with cellophane tape from the back side; mild rubbing; a small scuffed area near the bottom of the front panel; the price has not been clipped. An attractive reading copy. NOT a Remainder, Book-Club, or Ex-Library. 8vo. (8.5 x 5.75 x 1 inches). 240 pages. Language: English. Weight: 1 pounds. 15.3 ounces.… Leer más

Henry Holt & Co, December 1989. First Edition. Hardcover Hardcover. Very Good/Good. Very Good Hardcover with Good Dustjacket. First Edition. DJ in mylar and price clipped. Moderate soiling and shelfwear to DJ, including a small tear. Light soiling and shelfwear to covers. Textblock mildly soiled. Pages clean and tight in binding. Pictures available upon request. A locally owned, independent book shop since 1984.

New York: Henry Holt, 1989. Book. Fine. Hardcover. 1st Printing. 240 pp, index, b/w photos, 8vo, blue boards/black cloth. Fine; dust jacket flap clipped, very good+.

NY: Holt, 1989. First printing. 8vo, pp. 240. Index. Illustrated with photographs. Paper over boards with cloth spine. Edges little spotted, dj and endpapers stained where dj has been glued, o/w a VG tight copy in somewhat scuffed and slightly chipped dj.

New York: H. Holt, c1989. First printing. Hardcover. Very good condition/good. 240pp. 22 cm.

Holt & Company, Henry. Used - Good. Former library book; may include library markings. Used book that is in clean, average condition without any missing pages.

New York, New York, U.S.A. : Henry Holt & Company,Inc. , 1989. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. The young Truman Capote who emerges from these amusing recollections by his first cousin, Jennings Faulk Carter, and freelance writer Moates is quick-witted, scheming, mercurial, a born leader in the mischievous escapades of a trio that included their tomboyish next-door neighbor Harper (``Nellie'') Lee, who later wrote To Kill a Mockingbird . Capote, abandoned by his mother to the care of relatives in Monroeville, Ala., as a small boy, found a maternal substitute in Carter's mother Mary Ida. Redolent with down-home flavor, these modest yet revealing tales deal with such matters as a fight with the town bully, bootlegging by Capote's father, exhuming a skeleton from a graveyard and a beach outing. Carter contends that relatives and friends alike failed Capote by not providing love and understanding. In her extensive introduction, Moates offers a contrasting view,… Leer más