Iberia
de Michener, James A
- Usado
- Tapa dura
- First
- Estado
- LIKE NEW in NONE jacket
- ISBN 10
- 3426055589
- ISBN 13
- 9783426055588
- Librería
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Sobre este artículo
Random House, 1968. 1ST. HARDBOUND. LIKE NEW in NONE jacket. 1ST. Weight 2.7 pounds Dimensions 6.75 x 2.25 x 9.75 inches. pp. 818. Publisher Random House; 1st edition (January 1, 1968) Language English ISBN-10 3426055589 ISBN-13 978-3426055588 Weight 2.7 pounds Dimensions 6.75 x 2.00 x 9.75 inches NO DUST JACKET. BEAUTIFUL BRIGHT ORANGE GOLD CLOTH BOARDS WITH EMBOSSED GOLD FOIL ORNAMENT. SPINE HAS GOLD FOIL TITLES. RARE FIND. HAS PREVIOUS OWNERS BOOKPLATE. Spain is an immemorial land like no other, one that James A. Michener, the Pulitzer Prize-winning author and celebrated citizen of the world, came to love as his own. Iberia is Michener's enduring nonfiction tribute to his cherished second home. In the fresh and vivid prose that is his trademark, he not only reveals the celebrated history of bullfighters and warrior kings, painters and processions, cathedrals and olive orchards, he also shares the intimate, often hidden country he came to know, where the congeniality of living souls is thrust against the dark weight of history. Wild, contradictory, passionately beautiful, this is Spain as experienced by a master writer. Iberia Spanish Travels and Reflections by James A Michener published by Random House 1968. Iberia Spanish Travels and Reflections by James A Michener copyright 1968 Random House third printing. This is a book about Michener's travels in Spain and Portugal. Except that it's missing a dust jacket the book is in very nice Condition. The pages are clean and complete, the cover shows little wear.
Sinopsis
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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- Librería
- BookQuest
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- Inventario del vendedor #
- 70567
- Título
- Iberia
- Autor
- Michener, James A
- Formato/Encuadernación
- HARDBOUND
- Estado del libro
- Nuevo LIKE NEW in NONE jacket
- Cantidad disponible
- 1
- Edición
- 1ST
- Encuadernación
- Tapa dura
- ISBN 10
- 3426055589
- ISBN 13
- 9783426055588
- Editorial
- Random House
- Fecha de publicación
- 1968
- Palabras clave
- FICTION
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