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The End of My Life
by BOURJAILY, Vance
- Used
- Very Good
- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/Good
- Seller
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Gloucester City, New Jersey, United States
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About This Item
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1947. Hardcover. Very Good/Good. First edition. Octavo. 278pp. Endpapers have light offset browning, else a very good copy in good, edge-worn dust jacket worn at extremitie, with shallow chips and small brown stain on spine. Inscribed by Bourjaily in an early hand to Bowdoin College classmates: "To Bibbo & Burt - and, far Niente, to which name I lived up admirably as regards this thing. Affectionately, Vance" ALSO laid into the book is a Typed Letter Signed, one octavo page with five paragraphs from Iowa City, dated July 24, 1969, to "Dear Bibbo and Burt." The TLS begins: "The 25th reunion for 1944 was certainly one I'd hoped to attend, but somehow assumed Bowdoin Commencement would be earlier in June... I'd committed myself to doing some work in Colorado... So I missed seeing all those guys again... There were some pretty odd-looking birds in the Rockies-- bluebirds the wrong shade of blue... magpies twice as big as I'd ever imagined a magpie looking; but the best creatures around for inspection were the trout, healthiest, brightest fish I'd ever seen from fresh water... Meanwhile, speaking of blue birds, we've hatched out broods in five of twenty-nine boxes that I'm sure of... one brood lost to a snake... We all send love. Fondly, Vance." For the inscribed book and signed letter. $275.
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- Bookseller
- Between the Covers- Rare Books, Inc. ABAA
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 550309
- Title
- The End of My Life
- Author
- BOURJAILY, Vance
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- Charles Scribner's Sons
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1947
- Keywords
- AmerLit20thCent, FirstBook
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
Between the Covers- Rare Books, Inc. ABAA
Biblio member since 2005
Gloucester City, New Jersey
About Between the Covers- Rare Books, Inc. ABAA
Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc., founded in 1985, specializes in first editions of 20th Century American and English fiction. Our inventory of over 75,000 first editions includes: African-American literature & history, Mysteries, Detective Fiction, Drama, Books into Film and Sports books. We routinely issue extensively illustrated color catalogs, available by subscription. We are members of the Antiquarian Booksellers' Association of America (ABAA)and the International League of Antiquarian Booksellers (ILAB). Tom Congalton, founder of Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc., actively promotes the ethics and standards of these professional organizations and served as President of the ABAA from 2000 to 2002.
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