The Memoirs of a Failure. With an Account of the Man and his Manuscript.
by Kittredge (Daniel Wright)
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- Hardcover
- Condition
- See description
- Seller
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Sidney, British Columbia, Canada
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About This Item
Cincinnati: U.P. James, Bookseller, 1908.. First edition. Blue cloth, spine and front cover lettered in gilt, device in gilt on front cover. Title page lettered in black & red. Light wear to front cover, a nice bright copy. A curious novel, part of it is fantastic, involving a strange professor and his device which can hear the thoughts of the dead. Smith: American Fiction, K302.
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Details
- Bookseller
- William Matthews, Bookseller / The Haunted Bookshop (CA)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 55781
- Title
- The Memoirs of a Failure. With an Account of the Man and his Manuscript.
- Author
- Kittredge (Daniel Wright)
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Cincinnati: U.P. James, Bookseller, 1908.
- Bookseller catalogs
- SFcat;
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William Matthews, Bookseller / The Haunted Bookshop
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About the Seller
William Matthews, Bookseller / The Haunted Bookshop
Biblio member since 2004
Sidney, British Columbia
About William Matthews, Bookseller / The Haunted Bookshop
Established 1976. Open shop in Victoria BC, Open Wed-Sun 11-5. Specialists in weird, fantastic, supernatural,utopian, interplanetary, science fiction and lost race fiction; also rare books, literary first editions, poetry broadsides. Antiquarian maps, charts, views, prints, engravings.
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