Letty Fox: Her Luck.
by STEAD, Christina
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Jacket darkened by cigarette smoke, with some chipping at edges and head and tail of spine. Scarce.
- Seller
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Rochester, New York, United States
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About This Item
New York:: Harcourt, Brace and Company, , [1946].. First edition.. publisher's salmon cloth in pictorial dust jacket.. Jacket darkened by cigarette smoke, with some chipping at edges and head and tail of spine. Scarce.. 8vo,.
Synopsis
Christina Stead (1902-1983) was born in Australia but lived for many years in London and New York, which she took as the settings for her major novels. She worked in banks and as a screenwriter while writing the acclaimed novels, The Man Who Loved Children, A House of All Nations , and Letty Fox: Her Luck . She returned to Australia in the early 1970s and lived there for the rest of her life. Tim Parks, a novelist, essayist, and translator, is Associate Professor of Literature and Translation at IULM University in Milan. His most recent novel is Dreams of Rivers and Seas .
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Details
- Bookseller
- Jeffrey H. Marks Rare Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 7754
- Title
- Letty Fox: Her Luck.
- Author
- STEAD, Christina
- Format/Binding
- Publisher's salmon cloth in pictorial dust jacket.
- Book Condition
- Used - Jacket darkened by cigarette smoke, with some chipping at edges and head and tail of spine. Scarce.
- Edition
- First edition.
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Harcourt, Brace and Company,
- Place of Publication
- New York:
- Date Published
- [1946].
- Pages
- 517 pp.
- Size
- 8vo,
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
Jeffrey H. Marks Rare Books
Biblio member since 2005
Rochester, New York
About Jeffrey H. Marks Rare Books
Specializing in modern first editions since 1978. Fine and rare books in all fields.
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- Jacket
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- Chipping
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- Cloth
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- 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....
- 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...
- First Edition
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- Tail
- The heel of the spine.
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