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Prince Ishmael
by Marianne Hauser
- Used
- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- Slightly bowed boards worn to edges, with board exposure to three of four corners; foxed topstain; clean within and in a square,
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Ridgewood, New York, United States
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About This Item
New York: Stein and Day, 1963. First Edition. Hardcover octavo in illustrated dust jacket. Slate paper covered boards backed with red cloth, gilt stamped lettering to spine and front. Publisher's red topstain and endpapers. 315pp. Slightly bowed boards worn to edges, with board exposure to three of four corners; foxed topstain; clean within and in a square, sound binding. Good. Unclipped jacket has a large closed tear (repaired with scotch tape to verso) to front cover, some chipping and rubbing about edges, but with almost all material present; also Good.. Dust jacket by Ellen Raskin. Inscribed presentation copy (to friend and author Marguerite Young) of Hauser's fifth novel, generally considered her finest work. Inscription inked to title page reads, "For Margie -- my darling -- with love / Marianne / Oct. 1963".
Marianne Hauser (1910-2006) was an Alsatian-American author who, after a period in Paris writing against the encroaching threat of Nazism, ended up fleeing it to New York City, where she became a prominent critic and close associate of many West Village writers such as Marguerite Young, Mari Sandoz, and Anais Nin. Her work drifted away from mainstream publishers over the years, and much remains out of print and under known, although recent efforts to bring her work back into the spotlight have been undertaken by critics towards the goal of eventual republication.
Marguerite Young, best known for her experimental epic novel Miss Macintosh, My Darling, would prove to be one of the closest creative relationships of Hauser's life, with them privately and publicly critiquing and lauding each other's work through extensive correspondence and on the pages of literary reviews.
Marianne Hauser (1910-2006) was an Alsatian-American author who, after a period in Paris writing against the encroaching threat of Nazism, ended up fleeing it to New York City, where she became a prominent critic and close associate of many West Village writers such as Marguerite Young, Mari Sandoz, and Anais Nin. Her work drifted away from mainstream publishers over the years, and much remains out of print and under known, although recent efforts to bring her work back into the spotlight have been undertaken by critics towards the goal of eventual republication.
Marguerite Young, best known for her experimental epic novel Miss Macintosh, My Darling, would prove to be one of the closest creative relationships of Hauser's life, with them privately and publicly critiquing and lauding each other's work through extensive correspondence and on the pages of literary reviews.
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- Bookseller
- Better Read Than Dead
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 2300
- Title
- Prince Ishmael
- Author
- Marianne Hauser
- Illustrator
- Dust jacket by Ellen Raskin
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover octavo in illustrated dust jacket. Slate paper covered boards backed with red cloth, gilt stamped lettering to spine a
- Book Condition
- Used - Slightly bowed boards worn to edges, with board exposure to three of four corners; foxed topstain; clean within and in a square,
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Stein and Day
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1963
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- First Edition
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- Edges
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- Chipping
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- Cloth
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- Rubbing
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- Octavo
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- Gilt
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- Inscribed
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- Foxed
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