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New Directions 1939
by James Laughlin IV editor: Frederico Garcia Lorca, Kay Boyle, Frank Sargeson, Elizabeth Bishop, Dylan Thomas, Kenneth Patchen, Robert Fitzgerald, Henry Miller, Harvey Breit, William Carlos Williams, Lawrence Durrell, John Berryman, et al
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good minus/Good
- Seller
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Newmarket, New Hampshire, United States
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
New Directions: Norfolk CN, 1939. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good minus/Good. Octavo, 9 1/4" tall, xxii + 390 pages + black and white plates + 34 ads pages, white and maroon titles on blue boards. A very good minus, generally clean and neat hard cover overall with moderate shelf wear, boards are roughed at the edges, spine color faded (sunned), binding solid, paper lightly yellowed but with light foxing to the endpapers. In a good, edge-worn dust jacket, chipping at the flap fold and back strip edges top and bottom, and with the original price present.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Avenue Victor Hugo Books LLC
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 618667
- Title
- New Directions 1939
- Author
- James Laughlin IV editor: Frederico Garcia Lorca, Kay Boyle, Frank Sargeson, Elizabeth Bishop, Dylan Thomas, Kenneth Patchen, Robert Fitzgerald, Henry Miller, Harvey Breit, William Carlos Williams, Lawrence Durrell, John Berryman, et al
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good minus
- Jacket Condition
- Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- New Directions: Norfolk CN
- Date Published
- 1939
- Keywords
- Prose, Poetry, Design, Literature, Essay, Fiction
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About the Seller
Avenue Victor Hugo Books LLC
Biblio member since 2005
Newmarket, New Hampshire
About Avenue Victor Hugo Books LLC
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Avenue Victor Hugo Books specialize in first editions of the best in fiction, history, biography, poetry, drama, and essay. Our catalogue features careful, considered assessments of all of our stock. We are not flippers selling books by the pound. Instead, we try to limit our stock to books in a condition we'd be proud to place on our personal bookshelves.
For nearly 30 years, Avenue Victor Hugo Books was a fixture of Newbury Street in Boston's Back Bay, at one time holding over a quarter-million magazines and 150,000 used books. Awarded "Best Used Bookstore" multiple times by Boston Magazine, the store was a favorite of Boston-area authors and college students alike.
Since relocating to New Hampshire our shop has been featured on WBGH Boston News, WVCB's "Boston Chronicle," NHPR, and WMUR's "New Hampshire Chronicle." Avenue Victor Hugo has also recently been featured in "New Hampshire magazine," "The Boston Globe," UNH's "The New Hampshire," "The New Hampshire Union Leader," and "Foster's Daily Democrat."
Our store is open Fridays & Saturdays from 10am to 6pm in Lee, New Hampshire, less than 10 minutes from the University of New Hampshire.
Avenue Victor Hugo Books specialize in first editions of the best in fiction, history, biography, poetry, drama, and essay. Our catalogue features careful, considered assessments of all of our stock. We are not flippers selling books by the pound. Instead, we try to limit our stock to books in a condition we'd be proud to place on our personal bookshelves.
For nearly 30 years, Avenue Victor Hugo Books was a fixture of Newbury Street in Boston's Back Bay, at one time holding over a quarter-million magazines and 150,000 used books. Awarded "Best Used Bookstore" multiple times by Boston Magazine, the store was a favorite of Boston-area authors and college students alike.
Since relocating to New Hampshire our shop has been featured on WBGH Boston News, WVCB's "Boston Chronicle," NHPR, and WMUR's "New Hampshire Chronicle." Avenue Victor Hugo has also recently been featured in "New Hampshire magazine," "The Boston Globe," UNH's "The New Hampshire," "The New Hampshire Union Leader," and "Foster's Daily Democrat."
Our store is open Fridays & Saturdays from 10am to 6pm in Lee, New Hampshire, less than 10 minutes from the University of New Hampshire.
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- Edges
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- Octavo
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- Spine
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- First Edition
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- Shelf Wear
- Shelf wear (shelfwear) describes damage caused over time to a book by placing and removing a book from a shelf. This damage is...
- Chipping
- A defect in which small pieces are missing from the edges; fraying or small pieces of paper missing the edge of a paperback, or...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
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