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How to Make an American Quilt
by Otto, Whitney
- Used
- Very Good
- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/Very Good
- ISBN 10
- 0679400702
- ISBN 13
- 9780679400707
- Seller
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Seattle, Washington, United States
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About This Item
Villard, 1991. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" Tall. Slight rubbing to jacket (chiefly to lower jacket cover); else a near fine copy internally. [12], 179, [1] pages. First book of the San Francisco-based author: ' ... brilliant fictional debut ... captures the significant passages in women's lives' (jacket front flyleaf). 'First Edition' and number line from 9 to 2 on title page verso. Signed and inscribed by Otto in blue ink on half-title page: '5/4/91 / To Mary -- / Thanks for / coming tonight -- / Best, / WOtto / Danville, CA.'Few b/w Decorations (headpieces).
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Details
- Bookseller
- Arundel Books of Seattle
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- L071102
- Title
- How to Make an American Quilt
- Author
- Otto, Whitney
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- ISBN 10
- 0679400702
- ISBN 13
- 9780679400707
- Publisher
- Villard
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1991
- Keywords
- WHAR.452 Otto, Whitney American Literature 20th Century American Fiction First Book Signed Inscribed QX91, , , , , , ,
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- Rubbing
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- The page bound on the left side of a book, opposite to the recto page.
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