Patch Boys by Parini Jay (23 results)

Paperback. Condition: Fair. The item might be beaten up but readable. May contain markings or highlighting, as well as stains, bent corners, or any other major defect, but the text is not obscured in any way.

Paperback. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Paperback. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Paperback. Condition: Fair. No Jacket. Readable copy. Pages may have considerable notes/highlighting. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

paperback. Condition: Very Good. Connecting readers with great books since 1972! Used books may not include companion materials, and may have some shelf wear or limited writing. We ship orders daily and Customer Service is our top priority.

Paperback. Condition: Good.

Paperback. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Paperback. Condition: Good.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. First Edition. FIRST PRINTING. The critically acclaimed, award-winning author's second novel. "The Patch Boys" is a novel about childhood's end, the summer of 1925, and labor troubles in the Pennsylvania anthracite country. Its hero-narrator is Sammy di Cantini, a fifteen-year-old growing up in a "patch," one of the poor housing clusters built near the mines. A person determined to rise above his class, at a time when background is still everything. Sammy comes from a large, eccentric family of immigrant Italians. It includes his mother, desperately trying to hold things together after his father's death in a mining accident, and his brothers-Louis, a budding gangster, and Vincenzo, a union organizer and local baseball hero. During the summer-a summer when Calvin Coolidge was president and America, too, was coming of age-Sammy roams the banks of the Susquehanna with his orphan friend, Will Denks; falls in love, disastrously, with Ellie Maynard, the Protestant girl whose world he aspires to (a world he mostly views as a golf caddy); travels to New York for a boisterous and dangerous week with his Mafia brother; dabbles with the notion of becoming a priest; and watches helplessly as his organizer brother becomes involved in a struggle he cannot possibly win." 218 pages. MInor bump to top of DJ spine. Slight yellowing strip to top and bottom of DJ. LF.…

Trade Paperback. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. First Edition/First Printing. first edition/first printing book is tight with no markings, minor soiling to page edges, wraps have some rubbing and soiling, some surface scratches on backside.

Dust Jacket Condition: Good. New York, NY, U.S.A.: Henry Holt & Company, LLC, 1988. 218 pp. Cover illustration by Nancy Stahl. A 1986 Best Book for Young Adults, YASD, American Library Association. The Library Journal says of this book: ".(A) beautifully crafted, lyrically written coming of age novel." Softcover has a small crease to back top corner. crease to spine, slight spine tilt but is bright and clean. No former owner's name. Text is very clean and secure. First Owl Book Edition. Soft Cover. 8 1/4 x 5 3/4.…

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Hardcover with DJ. Tan paper over boards with blue cloth and gilt stamping on spine. Tan pictorial DJ with brown lettering. Title page not dated. Copyright page dated 1986. 218 pages. SIGNED on the title page by Jay Parini. Pages clean and unmarked. A very good copy. Signed by Author(s).…

Hardcover. Condition: fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near fine. First edition. Poet and second-time novelist Parini (Anthracite Country, Love Run, Benjamins Crossing, The Apprentice Lover etc.) here limns a fairly formulaic and unpretentious coming-of-age novel distinguished somewhat by its setting: Pennsylvania coal-mining country in the 1920's. 5¾" - 8½". Signed by author. book. …

Hardcovers. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. First Edition. First edition, first prnt. Beginning foxing on the top edge; dustjacket with beginning extremity toning. Near Fine condition in a Near Fine dustjacket with an archival cover. Parini's second novel.

Trade Paperback. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. First Edition. 218 pages. A novel. First edition (first printing). A fine copy in a fine dust jacket.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Near Fine. First edition. Fine in near fine sunned dust jacket with some minor rubbing.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. First Printing, Complete Number String. 218pp. Inscribed by the author to well-known literary critic and book reviewer. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

paperback. Condition: As New. INSCRIBED on the title page by Jay Parini. Dust jacket in brodart. First Edition. U.S. orders are shipped from N.Y. state. Signed.

Softcover. Condition: Very Good. Uncorrected proof. Printed wrappers. Small sticker shadow on front cover, light soiling, toned spine, very good.

Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 218 pages. SIGNED BY AUTHOR on title page. Gilt titles on spine. Illustrated title page. Illustrated chapter headings. Small stain to fore edge. Otherwise clean, tight copy. Record # 466866.

Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 218 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Jacket price clipped and shows minor age wear to top edge. SIGNED BY AUTHOR on title page. Gilt titles on spine. Illustrated title page. Illustrated chapter headings. Light foxing to top of text block, small blemish to lower spine. Otherwise clean, tight copy. Record # 2231446. …

Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 218 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Jacket price clipped and shows minor age wear to top edge. SIGNED BY AUTHOR on title page. Gilt titles on spine. Illustrated title page. Illustrated chapter headings. Light foxing to top of text block. Otherwise clean, tight copy. Record # 2231447. …

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. First edition. Fine in fine dustwrapper. Inscribed by the author to fellow author Nicholas Delbanco. Novel.