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The Ancient Quest and Other Poems In Brown
by Reginald Wright Kauffman
- Used
- Very Good
- Hardcover
- Signed
- Condition
- Very Good/No Jacket
- Seller
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Lancaster, Pennsylvania, United States
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About This Item
New York: Robert J. Shores, 1917. Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. Gilt lettering on brown covers in a tan pictorial dust jacket. 12mo, 114pp. Author signed on the dedication page. Kauffman was born and lived in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, although he also maintained homes in Switzerland and Bath, Maine. After graduating from Harvard in 1900, he wrote dozens of stories, mysteries, children's books, and non-fiction titles. He was the editor of the Bangor, Maine *Daily News* from 1941-1947. His novel, *The House of Bondage* was widely praised, specifically by Emma Goldman, as the first serious attempt to explore the problem of women and prostitution. Dust jacket front cover & flaps [edge & corner torn] are present behind a Demco transparent wrapper. Enclosed with the book is a copy of a newspaper story about Kauffman.
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- Bookseller
- NWJBOOKS
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 008543
- Title
- The Ancient Quest and Other Poems In Brown
- Author
- Reginald Wright Kauffman
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- Robert J. Shores
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1917
- Keywords
- poetry
Terms of Sale
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NWJBOOKS
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Lancaster, Pennsylvania
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Specializing in signed, rare and out of print books.
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- Flap(s)
- The portion of a book cover or cover jacket that folds into the book from front to back. The flap can contain biographical...
- Gilt
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- Jacket
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- 12mo
- A duodecimo is a book approximately 7 by 4.5 inches in size, or similar in size to a contemporary mass market paperback. Also...