DREAM HOUSE, On Building a House by a Pond
by COOMER, Joe
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BUDERIM, Queensland, Australia
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About This Item
Boston & London: Published by Faber & Faber, 1992. 8vo. pp.viii + 195 quarter cloth hardcover in pictorial dust wrapper.
Inscribed and signed on half title. Near Fine copy. Novelist Joe Croomer was living in a small converted garage with his wife Heather when he undertook to build their first real home, a magnifificent Queen Anne Victorian. As Joe built, so he wrote. This book follows the day-to-month construction of their home, from foundations to fretwork, through the long Texas days of shovel to earth, hammer to nail, dream to actuality.
Inscribed and signed on half title. Near Fine copy. Novelist Joe Croomer was living in a small converted garage with his wife Heather when he undertook to build their first real home, a magnifificent Queen Anne Victorian. As Joe built, so he wrote. This book follows the day-to-month construction of their home, from foundations to fretwork, through the long Texas days of shovel to earth, hammer to nail, dream to actuality.
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- Bookseller
- A & F MCILREAVY BUDERIM RARE BOOKS (AU)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 193921
- Title
- DREAM HOUSE, On Building a House by a Pond
- Author
- COOMER, Joe
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- Published by Faber & Faber
- Place of Publication
- Boston & London
- Date Published
- 1992
- Keywords
- LITERATURE. SIGNED BY AUTHOR. AMERICAN LITERATURE
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About A & F MCILREAVY BUDERIM RARE BOOKS
Alan and Fiona McIlreavy been Antiquarian Booksellers for over 40 years, in St Andrews in Scotland and in Melbourne Australia. Buderim Rare Books was established in 2000 when we returned to Australia. Buderim is on Queensland's Sunshine Coast ten minutes from the Pacific Ocean. We have a shop and an online catalogue. Shop hours 9.15- 2.00 pm until further notice
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