Life On Wheels
by TILLMAN, Carolyn
- Used
- first
- Condition
- See description
- Seller
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Winchester, Virginia, United States
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About This Item
Los Angeles: Crescent Publications, 1975. First Edition. Octavo (21.5cm); illustrated wrappers; 98pp. Top edge of text lightly foxed, else Fine and unread. "The haunting novel of a tormented young woman who has been confined to a wheelchair since the age of two from polio..." The novel mirrors the author's life; Tillman, a Compton, CA woman, suffered an attack of polio at the age of 2, and was confined to a wheelchair since. She writes her books by holding a pencil in her mouth and striking the keys of a typewriter.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Lorne Bair Rare Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 25946
- Title
- Life On Wheels
- Author
- TILLMAN, Carolyn
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 2
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- Crescent Publications
- Place of Publication
- Los Angeles
- Date Published
- 1975
- Bookseller catalogs
- Modern Fiction; Women; The Blind, the Halt, the Lame; Black Arts Movement;
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About the Seller
Lorne Bair Rare Books
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Winchester, Virginia
About Lorne Bair Rare Books
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Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- First Edition
- In book collecting, the first edition is the earliest published form of a book. A book may have more than one first edition in...
- Foxed
- Foxing is the age related browning, or brown-yellowish spots, that can occur to book paper over time. When this aging process...
- Octavo
- Another of the terms referring to page or book size, octavo refers to a standard printer's sheet folded four times, producing...