Jonathan Raban OLD GLORY First Edition
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Jonathan Raban OLD GLORY First Edition
First UK edition, first print hardback of OLD GLORY - An American Voyage, by Jonathan Raban and published by William Collins Sons & Co Ltd., London in 1981.The book is in very good condition (blue boards have only very light stains, gold lettering on spine, slight bumping & rubbing to the corners and spine edges) with a little wear to the paper dust jacket, which is price clipped (creasing to edges and to the spine). Internally, the pages are clean and tight and there are no tears and no inscriptions. Very light discolouration to page, but to my mind this is by no means an issue.
From the dust jacket blurb; Selina Hastings wrote:"You are a good man to ride the River with Jonathan Raban." wrote Boom-Boom Kelley, captain of a Mississippi towboat and a stalwart guide to the author at one stage on his lone journey down the legendary river. But then Jonathan Raban had known the Missisippi since childhood, reading about it, dreaming of it. The reality was, of course, rather different. On arrival in Minneapolis, he had trouble finding the river, hidden behind a tangle of freeways and downtown office-blocks. But Missisippi was there as she had always been in all her old glory, shabby, dirty, astonishing and dangerous, rolling down through middle America with her cargoes of wheat, cotton, scrap iron, coal. In his little boat Raban chugged past the busy docklands of St Paul, past grain elevators and oil terminals, past the glossy houseboats of the suburban rich, past creeks and spits and petrified forest, past sleepy towns where nothing happened. Ready to go wherever the current took him, he joined in with black Baptists in Memphis, with housewives in Pemiscot, hog-kings in Dubuque, a coon-hunt in Savanna, and fell for a girl in St Louis.This is as much as Raban's story as it is the story of the river. For Raban is on a quest, to find a shape, a meaning to the river, and to life itself. There must be a beginning, surely, a middle and an end? And the answer, you will be surprise to learn, lay with the armadillos, whose small corpses could be seen floating on the tide. For the armadillos, you see...527 pages.
ISBN: 0 00 216521 X
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