THE AGE OF CONFIDENCE: LIFE IN THE NINETIES
by Canby, Henry Seidel. Kruse, Albert (illustrated by)
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- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very Good +/Very Good -
- Seller
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Salisbury, Connecticut, United States
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About This Item
NY: Farrar & Rinehart, 1934. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good +/Very Good -. Memoir of American man-of-letters Canby whererin he describes growing up in the All-American way of life in Wilmington DE in the 1890s. Inscribed by him on the ffe to author and bibiophile Anne Lyon Haight. Laid-in is an inscribed card a b&w reproduction of the frontispiece (a picture of his family's house)" "Greetings from 'The Age of Confidence' to the Haights from the Canbys and Merry Xmas" Green cloth, a bity dusty, in pictorial dustjacket by illustrator Kruse, soiled/ worn about the edges, with a darkened spine chipped at head and foot. Solid binding.
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- Bookseller
- Johnnycake Books ABAA, ILAB (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 012137
- Title
- THE AGE OF CONFIDENCE: LIFE IN THE NINETIES
- Author
- Canby, Henry Seidel. Kruse, Albert (illustrated by)
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good +
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good -
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Publisher
- Farrar & Rinehart
- Place of Publication
- NY
- Date Published
- 1934
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Salisbury, Connecticut
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