Blue Highways: A Journey into America
by William Least Heat Moon (William Trogden)
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- VG/VG
- ISBN 10
- 0316140635
- ISBN 13
- 9780316140638
- Seller
-
Roseburg, Oregon, United States
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About This Item
Blue cloth covered hardcover boards with decorative blind stamp front and back covers. Gilt lettering to spine. Slight sun fade to top margin. Former owner's name on FFE. Book is square, binding tight, and text clean.
DJ has minor edge wear, but no tears and DJ is not price clipped.
This was William Least Heat Moon's first published work. A now historical account of the back roads of America, (the blue marked roads on older road maps) in the 1970s, written by a highly sensitive and perceptive writer.
Mylar protected.
Synopsis
Blue Highways is an autobiographical book by William Least Heat-Moon, born William Trogdon. In 1978, after separating from his wife and losing his job as a teacher, Moon, 38 at the time, decided to take an extended road trip around the United States, sticking to only the "Blue Highways," a term he coins to refer to small, forgotten, out of the way roads connecting rural America (which were drawn in blue on the old style Rand McNally road atlas).
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Details
- Bookseller
- Bonnie Lane Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 02-10-2023-05
- Title
- Blue Highways
- Author
- William Least Heat Moon (William Trogden)
- Illustrator
- Photographs by the Author
- Format/Binding
- Tight and Square
- Book Condition
- Used - VG
- Jacket Condition
- VG
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition, First Printing 1982
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 0316140635
- ISBN 13
- 9780316140638
- Publisher
- Little, Brown and Co.
- Place of Publication
- Boston, MA
- Date Published
- 1982
- Pages
- 421
- Size
- 9 7/16" x 6 1/8"
- Keywords
- American Roads, Travel Memoirs
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
Bonnie Lane Books
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Roseburg, Oregon
About Bonnie Lane Books
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