BACKGROUND WITH CHORUS A FOOTNOTE TO CHANGES IN ENGLISH LITERARY FASHION BETWEEN 1901 AND 1917
by Swinnerton, Frank
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- Hardcover
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About This Item
London: Hutchinson, [1956].. Cloth. Portrait. Fine in very good, lightly rubbed and edgeworn pictorial dust jacket. First edition. Inscribed with initials (as usual) from the author to his friend, Siegfried Sassoon. Sassoon comes in for a laudatory paragraph he shares with Graves, Brooke and Owen on p. 204. With the monogram of the posthumous Sassoon library dispersal label on the front pastedown.
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- Bookseller
- William Reese Company - Literature ABAA-ILAB (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
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- Title
- BACKGROUND WITH CHORUS A FOOTNOTE TO CHANGES IN ENGLISH LITERARY FASHION BETWEEN 1901 AND 1917
- Author
- Swinnerton, Frank
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Hutchinson
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- [1956].
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We issue frequent, and substantial, catalogues in our fields of specialization.
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- First Edition
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