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The Days Before
by Porter, Katherine Anne; Doris Grumbach [Association]
- Used
- near fine
- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- Near Fine/Very Good
- Seller
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Las Vegas , Nevada, United States
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About This Item
New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1952 First printing of the stated first edition. Signed presentation by Katerine Anne Porter directly on the front-free endpage: " "For Doris Grumback / Critic, and I mean a / real one, and a brave / one. Live Long! / Katherine Anne Porter/ 11 November 1975."
Doris Grumbach is an American novelist, biographer, literary critic, and essayist. Book with light tanning to spine and cover edge, light toning to endpapers, and cloth overlay at spine ends gently crimped; dust jacket with toning to spine, price clipped, short closed tear/crease to upper back cover, and mild shelf wear, else fine.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Idler Fine Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 022851
- Title
- The Days Before
- Author
- Porter, Katherine Anne; Doris Grumbach [Association]
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Near Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Publisher
- Harcourt, Brace and Company
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1952
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- Prose, Essays, Memoir, Writing, Literature, Women Writers, Association Copy.
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About the Seller
Idler Fine Books
Biblio member since 2003
Las Vegas , Nevada
About Idler Fine Books
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- Spine
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- Price Clipped
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- A.N.
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- First Edition
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- Cloth
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- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Shelf Wear
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