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Time: The Present
by Slesinger, Tess
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- Fine
- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- Fine/near fine
- Seller
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Century City, California, United States
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About This Item
New Orleans: Simon and Schuster, 1935. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/near fine. 1st edition, 1st printing. Neatly inscribed by Slesinger to her editor at Vanity Fair on the front endpaper: "To Frank Crowninshield / with a sophisticated bush / Tess Slesinger / May 8, 1935." Upper front corner lightly pushed, else clean and fine, dust jacket with light rubbing to the extremities, else near fine. This is Slesinger's second book and first collection of short stories. Known for her only novel, "The Unpossessed" (1939) and the adapted screenplays for "The Good Earth" (1937), "Remember the Day" (1941) and "A Tree Grows in Brooklyn" (1946). She was active with the leftist intellectual scene in 1930s New York and participated in founding the Screen Writers Guild.
"Out-of-door shouts from another world floated, far-off and crazy, through the half-closed window; the veil of satisfaction trembled, shot through with sound."
The Answer (page 338).
"Out-of-door shouts from another world floated, far-off and crazy, through the half-closed window; the veil of satisfaction trembled, shot through with sound."
The Answer (page 338).
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- Bookseller
- Biblioctopus
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 963
- Title
- Time: The Present
- Author
- Slesinger, Tess
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine
- Jacket Condition
- near fine
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- Simon and Schuster
- Place of Publication
- New Orleans
- Date Published
- 1935
- Keywords
- inscribed/signed
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