THIRTY STORIES
by BOYLE, Kay
- Used
- first
- Condition
- Very good./Good.
- Seller
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New Haven, Connecticut, United States
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About This Item
London: Faber and Faber Ltd, 1948. First edition. Very good./Good.. Gilt cloth. Foreword. Offsetting to endsheets, old label mark to front free endsheet, else very good in two-color dust jacket with some bumps along top and bottom edges, smudges to both panels.
First UK edition. Dedicated, in gratitude, to her friend Caresse Crosby. "The present collection contains some of Kay Boyle's most famous titles -- 'Wedding Day,' 'Black Boy,' 'The White Horses of Vienna,' 'Defeat,' and 'Winter Night.' She has listed them chronologically, breaking the periods up by country as well as date, so that they are placed for the reader in time as well as geographically." -- from the front book flap.
First UK edition. Dedicated, in gratitude, to her friend Caresse Crosby. "The present collection contains some of Kay Boyle's most famous titles -- 'Wedding Day,' 'Black Boy,' 'The White Horses of Vienna,' 'Defeat,' and 'Winter Night.' She has listed them chronologically, breaking the periods up by country as well as date, so that they are placed for the reader in time as well as geographically." -- from the front book flap.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Second Wind Books LLC (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 313
- Title
- THIRTY STORIES
- Author
- BOYLE, Kay
- Book Condition
- Used - Very good.
- Jacket Condition
- Good.
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First edition
- Publisher
- Faber and Faber Ltd
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1948
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Second Wind Books LLC
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New Haven, Connecticut
About Second Wind Books LLC
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- Bumps
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- Gilt
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- Jacket
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- First Edition
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- Cloth
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- Edges
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