Fifteen Letters by Jonann Wolfgang von Geothe from his first Journey to Switzerland in 1775
by Goethe, Jonann Wolfgang von, translated (and Introduction) by Bayard Quincy Morgan
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- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very Good in Good DJ
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About This Item
San Francisco: Greenwood, 1949. Cloth. Very Good in Good DJ. 8vo, pp. unnumbered, portrait (by Andre Masson). One of 250 copies. Inscribed on front pastedown by Morgan, who has also made two neat corrections in colophon. Covers and page edges darkened; previous owner name on ffep; faint finger marks to a few pages; portrait plate offset to opposite page. Jacket sunned, rubbed, edgeworn, with chips and small tears mainly along top edge.
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- Title
- Fifteen Letters by Jonann Wolfgang von Geothe from his first Journey to Switzerland in 1775
- Author
- Goethe, Jonann Wolfgang von, translated (and Introduction) by Bayard Quincy Morgan
- Format/Binding
- Cloth
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good in Good DJ
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Greenwood
- Place of Publication
- San Francisco
- Date Published
- 1949
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