They Came Like Swallows -- Signed
by Maxwell, William
- Used
- Very Good
- Hardcover
- Signed
- Condition
- Very Good/Very Good
- Seller
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Sacramento, California, United States
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About This Item
New York: Harper & Brothers, 1937. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Early printing with $2.00 price on dust jacket flap. Very good with minor wear to extremities and some fading to spine. Neat name written at bottom of flyleaf and some offsetting to pastedowns, otherwise clean and tight. INSCRIBED BY MAXWELL on the half-title page. In a very good dust jacket with wear at spine ends and corners, and piece of tape near top of spine on reverse. Scarce signed.
Synopsis
William Maxwell was born in 1908, in Lincoln, Illinois. When he was fourteen his family moved to Chicago and he continues his education there and at the University of Illinois. After a year of graduate work at Harvard he went back to Urbana and taught freshman composition, and then turned to writing. He has published six novels, three collections of literary essays and reviews, and a book for children. For forty years he was a fiction editor at The New Yorker. From 1969 to 1972 he was president of the National Institute of Arts and Letters, He received the Brandeis Creative Arts Award Medal and, for So Long, See You Tomorrow, the American Book Award and the Howells Medal of the American Academy of Arts and Letters. He died in 2000.
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- Bookseller
- Magus Books
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 008606
- Title
- They Came Like Swallows -- Signed
- Author
- Maxwell, William
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- Harper & Brothers
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1937
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