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Approaches to Writing: With a Provisional Bibliography of the Author's Work by James Kraft
by HORGAN, Paul
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- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
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- ISBN 10
- 0374105693
- ISBN 13
- 9780374105693
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About This Item
New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1973. Hardcover. 8vo. Black cloth with gilt spine lettering, dust jacket. xi, 332pp. Fine/fine. Handsome and pristine first edition of this essay collection, subtitled on jacket front as "Reflections & notes on the art of writing from a career of half a century." This lovely copy bears an extra-illustration in the form a Typed Note Signed from Horgan facing the title page, 1p, 8" X 11", Middletown, CT, 14 June 1967. Addressed to Arnold F. Gates (1914-93, noted Lincoln/Civil War scholar). Near fine. Two original horizontal folds. On "Wesleyan University Center for Advanced Studies" letterhead, Horgan declines to attend a New York Civil War Round Table meeting, as "your invitation reached me while I was away on a long trip. But I hope you had an interesting meeting...." Boldly signed in full in black ink.
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- Bookseller
- Main Street Fine Books & Manuscripts, ABAA
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 45256
- Title
- Approaches to Writing: With a Provisional Bibliography of the Author's Work by James Kraft
- Author
- HORGAN, Paul
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- ISBN 10
- 0374105693
- ISBN 13
- 9780374105693
- Publisher
- Farrar, Straus & Giroux
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1973
- Bookseller catalogs
- Books; Literary Biography;
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