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The Collected Essays and Occasional Writings of Katherine Anne Porter
by Katherine Anne Porter
- Used
- near fine
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Near Fine/Very Good
- Seller
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Carrollton, Texas, United States
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About This Item
New York: Delacorte Press/Seymour Lawrence, 1970. 1st/1st. NF/VG. First Edition. Stated First Printing. Book is tight and square with solid hinges, good tips and clean unmarred boards. Textblock is clean with no writing, bookplate or markings and not BCE, ex-library or remaindered. A few faint speckles of foxing to top fore-edges and light page-edge soiling to bottom fore-edges. Dust jacket is unclipped ($12.50) with shelf-wear, scrapes, rubbing and faint crackling to spine head (see photos). 496 pages. Protected in a new Brodart Mylar cover. The anthology includes critical, personal, and biographical essays; three sections of an unfinished work about Cotton Mather; book reviews; letters; and poems.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Armadillo Alley Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 2534
- Title
- The Collected Essays and Occasional Writings of Katherine Anne Porter
- Author
- Katherine Anne Porter
- Format/Binding
- Cloth
- Book Condition
- Used - Near Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition / First Printing
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Delacorte Press
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1970
- Weight
- 3.00 lbs
- Bookseller catalogs
- First Editions;
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About the Seller
Armadillo Alley Books
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Carrollton, Texas
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- First Edition
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- Brodart
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- Bookplate
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- Rubbing
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- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- Jacket
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- Spine
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