Self-Portrait: Ceaselessly into the Past (Signed Lettered Edition)
by MacDonald, Ross
- Used
- Fine
- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- Fine
- Seller
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PASADENA, California, United States
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About This Item
Capra Book. Fine. Hardcover. Signed by Author(s). First Edition. Ross Macdonald. Self-Portrait. Santa Barbara: 1981. First edition; limited edition "E," one of 26 lettered copies. Signed by Macdonald and Eudora Welty, who wrote the introduction. One of twenty-six lettered copies signed by the author and Eudora Welty, (276 in total edition). Octavo. [6], iv, 129, [5] pages. Publisher's black leather, spine lettered in silver; all text block edges trimmed; red endpapers; housed in marbled paper-covered slipcase. Faintest hint of pale soiling at front board, else fine. With photograph of Macdonald and Welty, who wrote the introduction, tucked into a pocket at front pastedown.
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- Title
- Self-Portrait: Ceaselessly into the Past (Signed Lettered Edition)
- Author
- MacDonald, Ross
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- Capra
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- Fine
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- First Edition
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