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FANTE/MENCKEN. JOHN FANTE & H.L. MENCKEN: A PERSONAL CORRESPONDENCE 1930-1952 - DELUXE ISSUE by Fante, John and H.L. Mencken (letters); Moreau, Michael and Joyce Fante (editors) - 1989

by Fante, John and H.L. Mencken (letters); Moreau, Michael and Joyce Fante (editors)

FANTE/MENCKEN. JOHN FANTE & H.L. MENCKEN: A PERSONAL CORRESPONDENCE 1930-1952 - DELUXE ISSUE by Fante, John and H.L. Mencken (letters); Moreau, Michael and Joyce Fante (editors) - 1989

FANTE/MENCKEN. JOHN FANTE & H.L. MENCKEN: A PERSONAL CORRESPONDENCE 1930-1952 - DELUXE ISSUE

by Fante, John and H.L. Mencken (letters); Moreau, Michael and Joyce Fante (editors)

  • Used
  • Hardcover
  • first
Santa Rosa: Black Sparrow Press, 1989. First Edition. Collection of decades-long correspondance between Fante and H.L. Mencken, his friend and early publisher. Uncommon in the deluxe issue. Deluxe Issue, one of 26 lettered copies specially bound, this being copy 'S'. Octavo (23.5cm); photo-illustrated paper-covered boards and patterned cloth backstrip, with title label applied to spine; publisher's original acetate dustjacket; [6],7-172,[6]pp; illus. Trivial wear to extremities, touch of dustiness to lower edge of textblock, else very Near Fine in a Near Fine, lightly rubbed dustjacket.

  • Bookseller Captain Ahab's Rare Books US (US)
  • Book Condition Used
  • Quantity Available 1
  • Edition First Edition
  • Binding Hardcover
  • Publisher Black Sparrow Press
  • Place of Publication Santa Rosa
  • Date Published 1989