Item #2950 The Home: A Memoir of Growing Up in an Orphanage. Richard McKenzie.

The Home: A Memoir of Growing Up in an Orphanage

New York: BasicBooks, 1996.

First Edition. Hardcover. 8 1/2" X 5 7/8". x, 228pp. Inscribed by Richard McKenzie to "an alumnus of Children's Home of Winston Salem," and dated 1/3/96 to front free endpaper. Moderate edgewear to unclipped dust jacket. White paper over boards with spine backed in white and lettered in black. Mild shelfwear to binding, firm and sound. Pages are clean and unmarked. An attractive signed first printing of this memoir of a childhood spent in an orphanage in the 1950s, "[n]either the idealistic world of 'Boys Town' nor a cold and loveless Dickensian institution." Very good + / very good. Item #2950
ISBN: 0465030688

Price: $20.00

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