Home Country
by Pyle, Ernie
- Used
- Condition
- very good: age and shelf wear to boards and spine, toning on endpapers, text clean, binding tight./poor: age wear, heavy chipping with loss, especially to corner and fore-edge of front cover/flap.
- Seller
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Chattanooga, Tennessee, United States
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About This Item
New York: William Sloane Associates, 1947. Book Club Edition. hardcover. very good: age and shelf wear to boards and spine, toning on endpapers, text clean, binding tight./poor: age wear, heavy chipping with loss, especially to corner and fore-edge of front cover/flap.. 8vo 472pp. BCE. from front flap: "HOME COUNTRY is the definitive collection of Ernie Pyle's writings during those five wandering years. It is the kind of storytelling our nation loves, inimitable, true Americana, by a man who will surely be acknowledged as a magnificent and distinctive writer in his own right." #01216.
Synopsis
1000 word essays about life on the road in America from 1934 to 1940 by Ernie Pyle who later became famous and loved by Americans as a war corresponent during WW II. He was shot by a japaneese sniper in 1945.
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Details
- Seller
- Matthew's Books LLC (US)
- Seller's Inventory #
- 1146
- Title
- Home Country
- Author
- Pyle, Ernie
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - very good: age and shelf wear to boards and spine, toning on endpapers, text clean, binding tight.
- Jacket Condition
- poor: age wear, heavy chipping with loss, especially to corner and fore-edge of front cover/flap.
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- Book Club Edition
- Publisher
- William Sloane Associates
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1947
- Keywords
- americana, travel, journalism, essay, nonfiction
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
Matthew's Books LLC
Biblio member since 2023
Chattanooga, Tennessee
About Matthew's Books LLC
small online used bookstore based in Chattanooga, TN. Little bit of everything, but lots of modern first editions.
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- Shelf Wear
- Shelf wear (shelfwear) describes damage caused over time to a book by placing and removing a book from a shelf. This damage is...
- Book Club Edition
- A generic term denoting a book which was produced or distributed by one of any number of book club organizations. Usually the...
- Chipping
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- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- Spine
- The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....