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Hardcover. Zustand: Good. shows minor wear.

Paperback. Zustand: Brand New. 210 pages. 9.00x6.00x0.48 inches. In Stock.

First Edition. Very faint yellowing; light wear to covers. 16pp large format stapled paperback. Used - Very Good. VG stapled paperback Used - Very Good. VG stapled paperback.

Octavo, 446pp, illustrated, original wrappers, foxed, worn and tape repaired at bottom of spine, a good to very good copy. Full of the health thinking of the 1920s, with much concern about the ill-effects of preservatives, arsenic sprays, etc, that seems very similar to present-day concerns.

Paperback. Zustand: As New. First Edition. Signed by the author. As new unread book. The wraps are a little shelf rubbed and edge worn. The text within the book is clear. The binding is excellent. GK. Our orders are shipped using tracked courier delivery services. Signed.

Trade paperback. Zustand: Very good. Presumed First Edition, First printing. [4], 303, [3] pages. Inscribed by the author on the title page. The inscription reads Richard, Hope you enjoy it! A. Also signed at dated below the author's name on the title page. Alan Margolis 5/2/12. Decorative front cover has slight wear and soiling. Alan Margolis is a writer and produced playwright. He studied writing at Johns Hopkins University and was awarded a fellowship at the Virginia center for the Creative Arts. This is his first novel. Mr. Chamy is a practicing fine artist and illustrator whose work has been exhibited over a dozen times including at the United Nations Northeast Gallery in New York City and the Museo del Brigantaggio in Itri, Italy. The lost Tribes of the Alleghenies is a darkly comic coming of age novel that takes place in that part of Pennsylvania memorably described as Philadelphia and Pittsburgh with Alabama in between. Lost tribes take place during a 1970s spring, between the final taping of the Scholastic Quiz championship, when Geoff, a high school junior and captain of the team, blow the final questions, and the public broadcast ten days later, which he will become a public laughing stock. As if it isn't bad enough being a member of a small Jewish community in a Pennsylvania mill town where his mother is the rabbi's secretary and knows everyone's business, Geoff has to deal with an elderly long-lost cousin who's full of secrets, and older sister who's full of wisdom and wisecracks, and an irate school board president with a son who's eager to replace Geoff as Quiz Team captain. Set in a time when drugs were readily available, sex wasn't too dangerous and bookstores were either independent or at the mall, Lost Tribes should appeal to freaks, geeks or anyone who spent their high school years feeling lost in the wilderness. Adam Chamy (Cover art) (illustrator).…