Winged Sandals
by Lucien Price
- Used
- very good
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- Very Good
- ISBN 10
- 0895241765
- ISBN 13
- 9780895241764
- Seller
-
Kirkland, Washington, United States
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About This Item
315pp, blue cloth cover with gilt lettering on cover and spine. Foxing on front and back endpapers. First edition first printing . Author Price describes his high end wandering through Italy, France, Germany and England during the twenties. Signed/Inscribed by author to Edgar Sherrill, book publisher. Included is a hand written note from actress Julia Arthur (1868-1950), who married a Boston millionaire Benjamin Pierce Cheney, Jr. and retired to NYC. Arthur was a famous and well-regarded actress. The note is to Sherrill: 20 East 76th St. Apart. 11-H New York Dear Mr. Sherrill: The little books "Mater Gloriosa" came in good condition and I thank you. It is a wonderfully beautiful appreciation of a mother and I shall take great pleasure in sending to some young people I know who are still capable of the more spiritual love. With thanks and best wishes I am, Very sincerely yours Julia Arthur Cheney Sept 23rd 1928. Sherrill was half of McGrath-Sherrill Press. A tremendous association piece that merges old money and the arts. Includes clipped book cover (front only), a newsclipping of Price reviewing a book (2-25-42) and the note from Arthur tipped in on page facing copyright notice (vintage).
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Details
- Bookseller
- Books Northwest (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 1982
- Title
- Winged Sandals
- Author
- Lucien Price
- Format/Binding
- Blue cloth with gold lettering on cover and spine
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Paperback
- ISBN 10
- 0895241765
- ISBN 13
- 9780895241764
- Publisher
- Cherry Lane Music
- Place of Publication
- Port Chester, Ny
- This edition first published
- December 1, 1987
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