A Sad Heart at the Supermarket: Essays and Fables
by Jarrell, Randall
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good in Good dust jacket; Jacket lightly toned and waterstained at lower left corner of rear panel with some paper adhesio
- Seller
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Selkirk, New York, United States
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About This Item
NY: Atheneum. Very Good in Good dust jacket; Jacket lightly toned and waterstained at . lower left corner of rear panel with some paper adhesion to boards.. 1962. First Edition. Hardcover. Navy cloth stamped in blind on front boards and in gilt on spine. Red topstain. Author photo on rear jacket panel. A collection of the late author's fables and essays. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall .
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Details
- Bookseller
- Old Saratoga Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 49339
- Title
- A Sad Heart at the Supermarket: Essays and Fables
- Author
- Jarrell, Randall
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good in Good dust jacket; Jacket lightly toned and waterstained at lower left corner of rear panel with some paper adhesio
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- Atheneum
- Place of Publication
- NY
- Date Published
- 1962
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- 1960s Fiction, Randall Jarrell, FABLES, ESSAYS
- Bookseller catalogs
- Short Stories and Essays;
Terms of Sale
Old Saratoga Books
We are happy to provide a refund within thirty days of the customer's receipt of any book(s) upon return of the book(s) to our shop.
About the Seller
Old Saratoga Books
Biblio member since 2005
Selkirk, New York
About Old Saratoga Books
Old Saratoga Books owners Dan and Rachel Jagareski have been selling books since 1996. After running an open shop for twenty years in the historic village of Schuylerville we now sell books online and at book fairs. We are members of the Independent Online Booksellers Association (IOBA). Our specialties include books about history, science, cooking, children's books, and the arts. Rachel is a graduate of the Colorado Antiquarian Book Seminar and has attended Rare Book School in Charlottesville, Virginia.
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