ANDERSEN-SCUDDER LETTERS: Hans Christian Andersen's Correspondence with Horace Elisha Scudder
by Westergaard, Waldemar (Edited with Translations and Explanatory Notes)/Hersholt, Jean (Introduction)Topsoe-Jensen, Helge (Interpretive Essay)/Andersen, Hans Christian/Scudder, Horace Elisha
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About This Item
Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1949. 182 pp. Original green cloth covers w/ gilt title on spine. Binding lightly soiled at edges. Modest rubbing to corners and spine ends. Previous owner's name in pencil on front paste-down; pencil note on rear blank endpaper. DJ lightly soiled w/ wear, tear, and chipping to edges. Spine and edges darkened. Illust. w/ two b/w plates. Contents nice.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Good-. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall.
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 7441
- Title
- ANDERSEN-SCUDDER LETTERS: Hans Christian Andersen's Correspondence with Horace Elisha Scudder
- Author
- Westergaard, Waldemar (Edited with Translations and Explanatory Notes)/Hersholt, Jean (Introduction)Topsoe-Jensen, Helge (Interpretive Essay)/Andersen, Hans Christian/Scudder, Horace Elisha
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Good-
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- University of California Press
- Place of Publication
- Berkeley and Los Angeles
- Date Published
- 1949
- Keywords
- LITERATURE GENERAL BIOGRAPHY AUTOBIOGRAPHY LETTERS CORRESPONDENCE ANDERSEN HANS CHRISTIAN 1805 1875 DANISH AUTHORS POETS WRITERS SCUDDER HORACE ELISHA 1838 1902 EDITORS PUBLISHERS BOSTON MASSACHUSETTS STATE HISTORY MA AMERICAN HISTORY UNITED STATES WORLD
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- Size
- 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall
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