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The Crack-Up by F. Scott Fitzgerald - 1945: with other uncollected pieces, note-books, and unpublished letters.
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Hardcover. Fine/ VG+ bound in the publisher's original quarter cloth and patterned boards, paper spine label lettered in black and dark red-brown. Top stained dark red-brown. Edited by Edmund Wilson with 8 of Fitzgerald's later years autobiographical pieces and 149 pages of notes, plus letters to friends as well as letters to Fitzgerald from Gertrude Stein, Edith Wharton, T.S. Eliot, Thomas Wolfe.
Dust jacket has moderate fraying/minor chipping along top edge; along with slight rubbing/fading to corners and spine ends. There is a one quarter inch chip at the head of dust jacket spine; Otherwise a the DJ is in great condition, which is extremely difficult to find in this title. Book is protected in a custom cut clear mylar cover.
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The Crack-up with Other Pieces and Stories
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The Hand of the Potter: A Tragedy in Four Acts
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209 pages. Small octavo (7 3/4" x 5 3/4") bound in original publisher's quarter brow cloth with dark green lettering to spine and cover over green boards. First edition, second state with half-title tipped to stub. Theodore Herman Albert Dreiser (August 27, 1871 December 28, 1945) was an American novelist and journalist. He pioneered the naturalist school and is known for portraying characters whose value lies not in their moral code, but in their persistence against all obstacles, and literary situations that more closely resemble studies of nature than tales of choice and agency. Condition: Chip at front edge, spine heal bumped, lightly soiled else about very good lacking jacket.
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Red Pottage. By Mary Cholmondeley. Copyright 1899, Harper & Brothers First Edition. 375 pages plus adverts. Used. Good- condition/ No DJ included. Plot Summary: "Red Pottage follows a period in the lives of two friends, Rachel West and Hester Gresley. Rachel is a wealthy heiress who falls in love with the weak-willed Hugh Scarlett after he has broken off an affair with Lady Newhaven (which he does not originally realize has been discovered by her husband)." Book title is taken from the Bible story of Esau.
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We Loved Them Once
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The Treasure Of Sierra Madre
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Traven, B. : The Treasure Of Sierra Madre. 1994 THORNDIKE PRESS LARGE-PRINT EDITION. Thorndike, Maine. EXLIB. Good/ No DJ if issued. ISBN0786201002. 533 pages. 5 ¾ X 8 ¾. Summary: "The story of three American adventurers who search for a lost gold mine in the mountains of Mexico. A tale of 'gold fever' and desperate greed." Basis for the Humphrey Bogart, John Houston film of the same name.
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The Sky and the Forest
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Dobrodruzstvi Toma Sawyera a Huckleberryho Finna.
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