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The Last Resort: Taking the Mississippi Cure (Willie Morris Books in Memoir and Biography)
by Norma Watkins
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- Fine
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Fine/Fine
- ISBN 10
- 1604739770
- ISBN 13
- 9781604739770
- Seller
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Arlington, Virginia, United States
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About This Item
Jackson, Mississippi: University Press of Mississippi, May 2011. First printing (stated) / full number line. Hardcover. Fine book in a Fine jacket. Interior pristine. Spine straight and tight, tail lightly bumped. Jacket clean and bright with slight edgewear. Not from a library. No remainder mark. Not clipped. xii + 291 pages, 16 pages of plates.
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- Books of the World
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- RWARE0000003014
- Title
- The Last Resort: Taking the Mississippi Cure (Willie Morris Books in Memoir and Biography)
- Author
- Norma Watkins
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Fine
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- ISBN 10
- 1604739770
- ISBN 13
- 9781604739770
- Publisher
- University Press of Mississippi
- Place of Publication
- Jackson, Mississippi
- Date Published
- May 2011
- Keywords
- autobiography, biography, memoir, history, race, racism, segregation, South, women, white, African Americans, Mississippi
- Bookseller catalogs
- History; Biographies; Race, Racism, Prejudice;
- Size
- 8vo
Terms of Sale
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- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- Tail
- The heel of the spine.
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