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A Chance Meeting: Intertwined Lives of American Writers and Artists, 1854-1967
by Cohen, Rachel
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- Paperback
- first
- Condition
- VG++/VG++/ND
- ISBN 10
- 1400061644
- ISBN 13
- 9781400061648
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About This Item
SOFTBACK SHIPPED FROM THE UK.* Edn: 1st. Thus.* Impression: 1st. Full number line.* Date of Publication: 2004* Publisher: Jonathan Cape.* Binding and cover condition: B/w photo-illustrated soft card covers. No bumps or rubs. Absolutely minimal shelf wear to edges & corners. No creases to spine or hinge. Seems lightly-used if at all. VG++* Contents condition: PRIVATE COPY NOT EX-LIBRARY. Clean, crisp, tight & bright. No annotations, inscriptions or marks to text, no tanning, edges very slightly grubby, no other visible faults. VG++* Illustrations: B/w photos within text.* Pages: 309 pp. text. lvii pp. acknowledgements, appendices, notes, bibliography and index at rear.* Product Description:- Dedicates a chapter each to meaningful encounters between significant writers and artists, including Henry James and Mathew Brady, Willa Cather and Mark Twain, and Langston Hughes and Zora Neale Hurston. "They met in ordinary ways," writes Rachel Cohen in her introduction, "a careful arrangement after long admiration, a friend's casual introduction, or because they both just happened to be standing near the drinks. . . . They talked to each other for a few hours or for forty years, and later it seemed to them impossible that they could have missed each other.".* This is a NEAR FINE uncorrected proof copy of the 1st./1st. fnl. with absolutely minimal shelf wear.*
Synopsis
RACHEL COHEN grew up in Ann Arbor, Michigan, and graduated from Harvard. She has written for The New Yorker, The Threepenny Review, McSweeney’s, and other publications. Her essays appeared in Best American Essays 2003 and the 2003 Pushcart Anthology . Cohen has received fellowships from the New York Foundation for the Arts and the MacDowell Colony, and won the 2003 PEN/Jerard Fund Award for the manuscript of A Chance Meeting . She teaches at Sarah Lawrence College and lives in Brooklyn. From the Hardcover edition.
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- Cocksparrow Books
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- Seller's Inventory #
- 561
- Title
- A Chance Meeting: Intertwined Lives of American Writers and Artists, 1854-1967
- Author
- Cohen, Rachel
- Format/Binding
- Paperback ARC.
- Book Condition
- Used - VG++/VG++/ND
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 1st. Edn, 1st. Imp. FNL.
- Binding
- Paperback
- ISBN 10
- 1400061644
- ISBN 13
- 9781400061648
- Publisher
- Jonathan Cape
- Place of Publication
- London UK 384
- This edition first published
- 2004
- Size
- 16.8 x 3.2 x 24.5 cm
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