William Dean Howells: An American Life
by LYNN, Kenneth S
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good in Very Good dust jacket
- ISBN 10
- 0151421773
- ISBN 13
- 9780151421770
- Seller
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Littleton, Colorado, United States
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About This Item
New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, Inc.. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. 1971. First Edition. Hardcover. 0151421773 . Stated first edition of this biography of the noted American novelist and critic, who, per the jacket flap, ". . .counted such polar opposites as Mark Twain and Henry James as his closest friends." With a section of black & white photos. --- In brown cloth with titling stamped in silver and grey on spine. Jacket with photographic portrait by Janet M. Cummings on cover. --- With Christmastime gift inscription on front free endpaper, otherwise a clean, firmly bound copy. Price-clipped dust jacket with minor rubbing and creasing, else intact.; Tall Octavo (9 to 10 in. tall) ; (10), 372 pages .
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Details
- Bookseller
- Bluebird Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 81201
- Title
- William Dean Howells: An American Life
- Author
- LYNN, Kenneth S
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good in Very Good dust jacket
- Edition
- First Edition
- ISBN 10
- 0151421773
- ISBN 13
- 9780151421770
- Publisher
- Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, Inc.
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1971
- Keywords
- 0151421773
- Bookseller catalogs
- >>Biography, Autobiography, Memoir;
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About the Seller
Bluebird Books
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Littleton, Colorado
About Bluebird Books
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