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THE FLOATPLANE NOTEBOOKS.
by Edgerton, Clyde
- Used
- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- Very good in a near fine dust jacket (hint of spine slant)./near fine
- ISBN 10
- 0945575009
- ISBN 13
- 9780945575009
- Seller
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About This Item
Chapel Hill, NC:: Algonquin Books,, 1988.. SIGNED hardcover first edition -. Very good in a near fine dust jacket (hint of spine slant).. First printing. His third novel, the story of the Copeland family of Listre, North Carolina - in 1956, the father Alfred began building a floatplane and in the notebook where he recorded his unsuccessful attempts to fly the plane, he also kept track of the family's history. In 1971 as the novel ends, his now grown sons, Meredith and Mark, are back from Vietnam, Meredith severely wounded but still with the tough Copeland sinew in him, and Alfred is still trying to fly the floatplane. INSCRIBED on the half title page and dated in the year of publication.
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- Bookseller
- Bookfever.com, IOBA
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 44240
- Title
- THE FLOATPLANE NOTEBOOKS.
- Author
- Edgerton, Clyde
- Format/Binding
- SIGNED hardcover first edition -
- Book Condition
- Used - Very good in a near fine dust jacket (hint of spine slant).
- Jacket Condition
- near fine
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 0945575009
- ISBN 13
- 9780945575009
- Publisher
- Algonquin Books,
- Place of Publication
- Chapel Hill, NC:
- Date Published
- 1988.
- Keywords
- vietnam era fiction,
- Bookseller catalogs
- Southern Writers and the South;
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