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The New Caravan
by Kreymborg, Alfred; Mumford, Lewis; Rosenfeld, Paul
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/Very Good
- Seller
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Woodstock, Illinois, United States
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
New York: Macaulay Company, 1936. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Very Good in a Very Good jacket, unclipped ($3.95), faded at the spine, lightly soiled, a few small chips, creases, and tears. Grey buckram with a red ink panel on the spine. Square and firmly bound with a red top stain, foxed at the edges and preliminaries, clean otherwise. A revival of Kreymborg, et al.'s anthology of American stories and poetry, with this volume including "hitherto unpublished short stories, essays, verse, experiments in play writing, long short stories of unusual interest and one extraordinary short novel by Paul Horgan," and with contributions by Sherwood Anderson, Richard Wright, Muriel Rukeyser, Kenneth Patchen, E.E. Cummings, William Carlos Williams, Jean Toomer, among others.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Carpetbagger Books, IOBA
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 7288
- Title
- The New Caravan
- Author
- Kreymborg, Alfred; Mumford, Lewis; Rosenfeld, Paul
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- Macaulay Company
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1936
- Keywords
- Literature, Modern Literature, 20th Century Literature, African American Literature, Black Literature, Feminism, Poetry, Short Stories
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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Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- Buckram
- A plain weave fabric normally made from cotton or linen which is stiffened with starch or other chemicals to cover the book...
- First Edition
- In book collecting, the first edition is the earliest published form of a book. A book may have more than one first edition in...
- Edges
- The collective of the top, fore and bottom edges of the text block of the book, being that part of the edges of the pages of a...
- Spine
- The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....
- Soiled
- Generally refers to minor discoloration or staining.
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Foxed
- Foxing is the age related browning, or brown-yellowish spots, that can occur to book paper over time. When this aging process...
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