WEDDING DAY AND OTHER STORIES
by BOYLE, Kay
- Used
- first
- Condition
- Good or better.
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About This Item
New York: Jonathan Cape and Harrison Smith, 1930. First edition. Good or better.. Cloth, and decorated boards, matching endsheets. The ownership signature of her occasional publisher, James Laughlin appears on the first free endsheet. Spine faded, light wear to corners and edges, but a good or better copy, lacking the dust jacket.
First U.S. edition of the author's first trade book, having been published by the Black Sun Press in a deluxe edition of one hundred fifty copies in the previous year. This book is dedicated to Laurence Vail, the Dada sculptor and writer, who Boyle met in 1928. Vail was then married to Peggy Guggenheim. Boyle and Vail lived together between 1929 until 1932 when, following their divorces, they married; they were divorced in 1943.
First U.S. edition of the author's first trade book, having been published by the Black Sun Press in a deluxe edition of one hundred fifty copies in the previous year. This book is dedicated to Laurence Vail, the Dada sculptor and writer, who Boyle met in 1928. Vail was then married to Peggy Guggenheim. Boyle and Vail lived together between 1929 until 1932 when, following their divorces, they married; they were divorced in 1943.
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- Bookseller
- Second Wind Books LLC (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 303
- Title
- WEDDING DAY AND OTHER STORIES
- Author
- BOYLE, Kay
- Book Condition
- Used - Good or better.
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First edition
- Publisher
- Jonathan Cape and Harrison Smith
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1930
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