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A Hasty Bunch.
by McALMON, Robert
- Used
- first
- Condition
- See description
- Seller
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London, United Kingdom
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About This Item
[Paris: Contact Publishing Co.,, 1922]. First edition, first impression, one of 300 copies printed. An exceptional copy, preserving the original publisher's tissue sleeve. A Hasty Bunch is McAlmon's first collection of prose, and the first book issued by his publishing house, Contact Editions, a venture which "would influence the course of modern literature" (ANB). The company was a short-lived enterprise, active from 1922 to 1929, but in that time published work by Hemingway (including his first two books, Three Stories and Ten Poems and in our time), Joyce, Stein, Pound, H.D., Djuna Barnes, Mina Loy, and William Carlos Williams. Octavo. Original light brown wrappers, front wrapper lettered in dark brown, top edge trimmed, others uncut, some pages unopened. With original publisher's tissue sleeve (chipped and a little torn). Housed in custom card sleeve with label. With loosely inserted leaf, as issued, "From an h'English Printer to an English Publisher". A fine, unopened copy.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Peter Harrington
(GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 152047
- Title
- A Hasty Bunch.
- Author
- McALMON, Robert
- Book Condition
- Used
- Place of Publication
- [Paris: Contact Publishing Co.,
- Date Published
- 1922]
Terms of Sale
Peter Harrington
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About the Seller
Peter Harrington
Biblio member since 2006
London
About Peter Harrington
Since its establishment, Peter Harrington has specialised in sourcing, selling and buying the finest quality original first editions, signed, rare and antiquarian books, fine bindings and library sets. Peter Harrington first began selling rare books from the Chelsea Antiques Market on London's King's Road. For the past twenty years the business has been run by Pom Harrington, Peter's son.
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- Octavo
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