The Cheechakoes
por Short, Wayne
- Usado
- Muito Bom
- Capa dura
- first
- Condição
- Muito Bom
- Livreiro
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Chicago, Illinois, United States
Formas de pagamento
Sobre este item
New York: Random House, 1964. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Octavo. Peter Parnall. In Mylar cover. Out of print. Binding is cloth boards.
Sinopse
The remarkable story of a remarkable family is narrated by Wayne Short, who shared with his father and mother and two younger brothers -- Dutch, fourteen, and Duke, sixteen -- the unique experience of a pioneer existence in the twentieth century. They were all cheechakoes -- Indian for "greenhorns" -- but the challenge of the wilderness only served to make their life more exciting, expecially for the boys.
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Detalhes
- Livreiro
- Alba's Books (US)
- Nº do estoque do livreiro
- BN023088
- Título
- The Cheechakoes
- Autor
- Short, Wayne
- Ilustrador
- Peter Parnall
- Formato/Encadernação
- Capa dura
- Estado do livro
- Usado - Muito Bom
- Quantidade Disponível
- 1
- Edição
- First Edition
- Editorial
- Random House
- Local de publicação
- New York
- Data de publicação
- 1964
- Dimensão
- Octavo
- Palavras-chave
- Arctic
Termos da venda
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/ Either way, her dad built a musty little empire with a sexy, funny, brilliant, and hard-to-pronounce name that boasted membership in the Midwest Antiquarian Booksellers Association (MWABA) and exhibited at Chicago book fairs such as the famed Printer's Row. / The way he puts it:
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/ When he says "our" he means himself, his wife, and his two daughters. It has grown more and more into a family business every year, and now he's nearly ready to hand the reins over to one of his daughters. (Don't worry, the other one's a school teacher.) On Biblio, Alba manages Bibliodisia's inventory and sales under the considerably less sexy, funny, brilliant and hard-to-pronounce business name of Alba's Books.
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