The Best American Short Stories: 1942
by Foley, Martha
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- See description
- Seller
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Woodland Hills, California, United States
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About This Item
Boston: Houghton Mifflin Co, 1942. First Edition ~1st Printing. Hardcover. very good in good price-clipped dust jacket, in fresh mylar sleeve; long gift inscription on ffep, large chip to top of jacket spine, small chips/cracks to jacket edges, light soiling/fading to boards else a tight square unmarked copy in clipped dust jacket; first printing with no later indications; includes short stories by John Steinbeck, Ludwig Bemelmans, MacKinlay Kantor, William Saroyan, Irwin Shaw, Wallace Stegner, James Thurber and more
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- Bookseller
- David Kaye Books & Memorabilia (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 50261
- Title
- The Best American Short Stories: 1942
- Author
- Foley, Martha
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used
- Edition
- First Edition ~1st Printing
- Publisher
- Houghton Mifflin Co
- Place of Publication
- Boston
- Date Published
- 1942
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- FFEP
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