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THROUGH DARKEST ADOLESCENCE : With Tongue in Cheek and Pen in Checkbook
by Richard Armour
- Used
- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- Collectible - Very Good/Very Good
- Seller
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Berkeley, California, United States
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About This Item
New York, NY: McGraw-Hill, 1963. First Edition, First Thus . Hardcover. Collectible - Very Good/Very Good. Susan Perl (Illustrator). Text/Tiny soil spots to pgs 20-25, else NEW & Bright. Illustrated bi-color boards/Fine. DJ/VG; Strong & sound with edge rubs, closed tears & small losses to lower corner tips & edges. A treatise on teenage behavior by poet & writer Richard Willard Armour (1906 - 1989). With wit & humour, Armour makes the case that "Adolescence is a disease" --- no vaccine yet available but mercifully not contagious. Symptoms of Teenese include ranting & raving episodes timed when all windows are open, driving distraught neighbours to escape by walking their dogs at all hours. Richard Armour, professor of Chaucer & the Romantic Poets, is self-described as "a docile husband & soft-hearted parent"; though not a ciminologist, dermatologist, man of cloth, or rock star, he was however once a teenager himself & has seen two inflicted teens to adulthood --- worthy credentials indeed! 180 pgs, line drawings, in 12 chapters. Excellent reading with equally excellent illustrations.
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- Bookseller
- 100 POCKETS
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 000728
- Title
- THROUGH DARKEST ADOLESCENCE : With Tongue in Cheek and Pen in Checkbook
- Author
- Richard Armour
- Illustrator
- Susan Perl (Illustrator)
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Collectible - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition, First Thus
- Publisher
- McGraw-Hill
- Place of Publication
- New York, NY
- Date Published
- 1963
- Keywords
- HUMOUR, AMERICA-HUMOUR-ADOLESCENCE, FAMILY DYNAMICS, SUSAN PERL (ILLUSTRATOR)
- Bookseller catalogs
- Humor/Wit;
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