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The Creative Present: Notes on contemporary American fiction
by BALAKIAN, Nona and SIMMONS, Charles (editors); [PRITCHETT, V. S.]
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- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- Good+
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About This Item
Garden City, New York: Doubleday & Company, inc., 1963. Cloth. Good+. A pleasing association copy from the library of author V. S. Pritchett, to whom it is inscribed. FIRST US EDITION. 8vo. Original black cloth, spine lettered in red. Blotching to boards, edges tanned. Pritchett's posthumous book label to front pastedown, inscribed by Balakian in blue pen to ffep: "To V. S. Pritchett,/ With highest esteem and warmest regards. Nona Balakian. Dec. 1963." Else, clean. Good+ Nona Balakian (1918-1991) was an Armenian American literary critic, essayist and editor of the New York Times Sunday Book Review. Balakian included an essay about V. S. Pritchett in her later essay collection, Critical Encounters (1978). The book label, which includes a facsimile signature, was added posthumously to books in V. S. Pritchett's library.
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- Bookseller
- Quair Books
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 2597
- Title
- The Creative Present: Notes on contemporary American fiction
- Author
- BALAKIAN, Nona and SIMMONS, Charles (editors); [PRITCHETT, V. S.]
- Format/Binding
- Cloth
- Book Condition
- Used - Good+
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Doubleday & Company, inc.
- Place of Publication
- Garden City, New York
- Date Published
- 1963
- Bookseller catalogs
- Signed & Association Copies;
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- Inscribed
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- Cloth
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- Facsimile
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- Edges
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- Association Copy
- An association copy is a copy of a book which has been signed and inscribed by the author for a personal friend, colleague, or...
- Spine
- The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....
- New
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- Good+
- A term used to denote a condition a slight grade better than Good.
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