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A Cup of the Sun.
by Waldo, Otavia
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- BINDING/CONDITION: beige cloth with red and yellow; a Very Good book, with a Good dust jacket; publisher's price on the jacket f
- Seller
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Oroville, California, United States
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About This Item
New York:: Harcourt, Brace & World, 1961.. 1st Edition, so stated.. Hardbound . BINDING/CONDITION: beige cloth with red and yellow; a Very Good book, with a Good dust jacket; publisher's price on the jacket flap is intact. The jacket would be Very Good but for fading at the spine.. 8vo (about 8.25 inches tall) . Description: Dust jacket by Jim McMullan; author photo by William Cotton. Octavia Capuzzi Waldo Locke was an Italian-American born in Philadelphia in 1929. She attended the Academy of Fine Arts in Rome on a Fulbright Fellowship in 1949-50. She taught art at the Walden School in New York. Besides teaching, she painted and wrote. She wrote short stories ''Portrait of a Family'' and ''The Collection'' as Octavia Capuzzi. This was her only novel. The story draws upon her own background and tells of life in an Italian-American community during World War II.
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- Bookseller
- The Bookworm
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 061364
- Title
- A Cup of the Sun.
- Author
- Waldo, Otavia
- Format/Binding
- Hardbound
- Book Condition
- Used - BINDING/CONDITION: beige cloth with red and yellow; a Very Good book, with a Good dust jacket; publisher's price on the jacket f
- Edition
- 1st Edition, so stated.
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Harcourt, Brace & World
- Place of Publication
- New York:
- Date Published
- 1961.
- Pages
- 248 pages.
- Size
- 8vo (about 8.25 inches tall)
Terms of Sale
The Bookworm
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About the Seller
The Bookworm
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Oroville, California
About The Bookworm
We are a small town bookstore, in the same location for over fifteen years. We strive to maintain a wide selection of books in lower price ranges.
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