Racehoss: Big Emma's Boy [Inscribed and Signed]
by Albert Race Sample
- Used
- very good
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/Very Good
- ISBN 10
- 0890154422
- ISBN 13
- 9780890154427
- Seller
-
Washington, District of Columbia, United States
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About This Item
Austin, TX: Eakin Press, 1984. Very Good/Very Good. Austin, TX: Eakin Press, 1984. First Edition (stated). Octavo; publisher's leatherette in white pictorial dust jacket; viii,320pp.; illus. Some rubbing to both boards and jacket extremities; a hint of dust-soil; light, faint dampstain to back jacket panel -- barely visible to jacket interior only but with some rippling to back panel -- not affecting boards beneath; else Very Good and sound overall. Inscribed and signed on front free endpaper: "To Rosemarie / Racehoss / Race Sample."
Memoirs of Albert Race Sample, the son of a "red neck" and a Black prostitute, and the "first ex-convict in Texas to work out of the Governor's office" serving as a probation officer. The work inspired the 2001 documentary of the same title.
Memoirs of Albert Race Sample, the son of a "red neck" and a Black prostitute, and the "first ex-convict in Texas to work out of the Governor's office" serving as a probation officer. The work inspired the 2001 documentary of the same title.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Capitol Hill Books, ABAA (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 13164
- Title
- Racehoss: Big Emma's Boy [Inscribed and Signed]
- Author
- Albert Race Sample
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 0890154422
- ISBN 13
- 9780890154427
- Publisher
- Eakin Press
- Place of Publication
- Austin, TX
- Date Published
- 1984
Terms of Sale
Capitol Hill Books, ABAA
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About the Seller
Capitol Hill Books, ABAA
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Washington, District of Columbia
About Capitol Hill Books, ABAA
Capitol Hill Books is a used bookstore in the Eastern Market neighborhood of Washington, DC. We have three floors of quality used books, first editions, and rare books.
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- Inscribed
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