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The Gallery
by Burns, John Horne
- Used
- good
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Good/Near Fine
- Seller
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Woodstock, Illinois, United States
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About This Item
New York: Harper and Brothers, Publishers. Book Club Edition. Hardcover. Good/Near Fine. Good in a Near Fine jacket, unclipped (no price), lightly rubbed and bumped at the edges and corners. Black cloth, bumped at the corners, a few stains on the boards, with rubbed blue ink panels on the spine. Firmly bound with a slight forward lean, some wavering to the text block, clean otherwise. Burns' classic World War II novel of troops stationed at the titular galleria in Naples.
Synopsis
John Horne Burns (1916-1953) attended Andover and Harvard and then served in military intelligence during World War II. He wrote two more novels after The Gallery — Lucifer With a Book and A Cry of Children —but both met with a cold critical reception. He drank himself to death in Florence while still in his thirties. Paul Fussell (1924–2012) was the author of many books on war and twentieth-century culture, including The Great War and Modern Memory , which won the National Book Award. His memoir Doing Battle: The Making of a Skeptic chronicles the time he spent fighting with the 103rd infantry division in World War II.
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Details
- Seller
- Carpetbagger Books, IOBA
(US)
- Seller's Inventory #
- 9929
- Title
- The Gallery
- Author
- Burns, John Horne
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Jacket Condition
- Near Fine
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- Book Club Edition
- Publisher
- Harper and Brothers, Publishers
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Keywords
- American Literature, Romance, Catholicism, Social Class, 20th Century Literature
Terms of Sale
Carpetbagger Books, IOBA
All items are returnable for a refund within 30 days of receipt.
About the Seller
Carpetbagger Books, IOBA
Biblio member since 2018
Woodstock, Illinois
About Carpetbagger Books, IOBA
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- Fine
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- Spine
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- Cloth
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- Edges
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