Ver a tamaño completo.
The Lost Continent: Travels in Small Town America
de Bryson, Bill
- Usado
- very good
- Tapa dura
- First
- Estado
- Very Good/Very Good
- ISBN 10
- 0060161582
- ISBN 13
- 9780060161583
- Librería
-
Skyway, Washington, United States
Formas de pago aceptadas
Sobre este artículo
Harper & Row Publishers, 1989. First edition of author's first book. Quarter cloth hard cover with dust jacket, VG/VG. Prior owner's gift note on half-title page, otherwise clean and unmarked copy. Light scattered foxing to top edge. Dust jacket is price-clipped, lightly rubbed, and offered in new mylar cover. 314pp., index, map illustrated endpapers.. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo - 8" - 9" Tall.
Sinopsis
Bill Bryson's very first travel book, a sidesplittingly funny road trip around America. "I come from Des Moines. Somebody had to." And, as soon as Bill Bryson was old enough, he left. Des Moines couldn't hold him, but it did lure him back. After ten years in England, he returned to the land of his youth and drove almost 14,000 miles in search of a mythical small town called Amalgam, the kind of trim and sunny place where the films of his youth were set. Instead, his search led him to Anywhere, USA; a lookalike strip of gas stations, motels, and hamburger outlets populated by lookalike people with a penchant for synthetic fibers. Traveling around thirty-eight of the lower states - united only in their mind-numbingly dreary uniformity - he discovered a continent that was doubly lost; lost to itself because blighted by greed, pollution, mobile homes, and television; lost to him because he had become a stranger in his own land. The Lost Continent is a classic of travel literature - hilariously, stomach-achingly funny, yet tinged with heartache - and the book that first staked Bill Bryson's claim as the most beloved writer of his generation.
Reseñas
(¡Iniciar sesión or Crear una cuenta primero!)
Detalles
- Librería
- Turn-The-Page Books
(US)
- Inventario del vendedor #
- 24718
- Título
- The Lost Continent: Travels in Small Town America
- Autor
- Bryson, Bill
- Formato/Encuadernación
- Tapa dura
- Estado del libro
- Usado - Very Good
- Estado de la sobrecubierta
- Very Good
- Edición
- First Edition
- ISBN 10
- 0060161582
- ISBN 13
- 9780060161583
- Editorial
- Harper & Row Publishers
- Lugar de publicación
- New York
- Fecha de publicación
- 1989
- Tamaño
- 8vo - 8" - 9" Tall
Términos de venta
Turn-The-Page Books
Returns: All merchandise accepted for a book-price refund if put into the mail within 10 days of receipt by buyer, and in the same condition as received. Any books received in "not as described" condition can be returned for a full refund, including return shipping, within 30 days. In these extremely rare instances, please email us of intent to return so that we can most efficiently expedite matters.
Sobre el vendedor
Turn-The-Page Books
Miembro de Biblio desde 2004
Skyway, Washington
Sobre Turn-The-Page Books
Customer service is our top priority! Susan is an ALA member librarian and lifelong book collector and enthusiast. Peter has happily spent over 30 years in the used book business. Books are well packaged to prevent damage in transit.
Glosario
Algunos términos que podrían usarse en esta descripción incluyen:
- First Edition
- In book collecting, the first edition is the earliest published form of a book. A book may have more than one first edition in...
- New
- A new book is a book previously not circulated to a buyer. Although a new book is typically free of any faults or defects, "new"...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- VG/VG
- Very Good Condition book with a Very Good Condition dust jacket. Very Good Condition indicates a used book that does show some...
