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Dance Night
by Powell, Dawn
- Used
- near fine
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Near Fine/Good
- Seller
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Nelson, British Columbia, Canada
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About This Item
New York: A.L. Burt Company, 1930. Reprint. Hardcover. Near Fine/Good. Tim Page, a critic and the author of Dawn Powell : A Biography, said of Powell "Some critics thought she was mean. All the very famous women writers were usually ending their stories with a man and a woman falling in love and living happily thereafter. Dawn had seen enough of life to realize, well, sometimes that's the case but it's not what usually happens in the world." Orange cloth over boards, title printed in black onto upper board and spine, top edge stained orange, 12mo (7-1/4 inches [18.5 cm] tall), pp. 298, with A.L. Burt's device on the title page and Farrar & Rinehart's device above "Copyright, 1930, by Dawn Powell" on the copyright page. Credited DJ artwork by "Cracy", DJ verso has a printed list of Burt's Popular Copyright Fiction. Volume board edges with very slight wear and a few tiny bumps, endpapers toned from binder's glue, else unmarked. DJ with edge wear and chips, spine panel has a small puncture and fading to pink color of lantern. "Dance Night" was Powell's favorite of her own novels and remains a very difficult title to find in DJ - even as a reprint. In 1986, Gore Vidal published an article in The New York Review of Books which praised Powell as one of American literature's lost greats.
Synopsis
Dawn Powell lived from 1897 to 1965 and was the author of fifteen novels, numerous short stories, and half-a-dozen plays.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Harropian Books, IOBA
(CA)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 2123
- Title
- Dance Night
- Author
- Powell, Dawn
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Near Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- Reprint
- Publisher
- A.L. Burt Company
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1930
- Bookseller catalogs
- Modern First Editions;
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About the Seller
Harropian Books, IOBA
Biblio member since 2006
Nelson, British Columbia
About Harropian Books, IOBA
Harropian Books is an online bookseller offering a diverse selection of antiquarian, collectible, rare and out of print items. Our focus is on the interesting & unusual, covering all fields. ***** We are a member of the IOBA (Independent Online Booksellers Association) and have attended the Colorado Antiquarian Book Seminar (2011), Rare Book School in Virginia (2014 - Developing Collections ; 2016 - The History of Printed Book Illustration in the West), London Rare Book School (2021 - The History of Maps and Mapping) and Gwain Weaver Art Conservation (2019 - Care and Identification of Photographs).
Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- Reprint
- Any printing of a book which follows the original edition. By definition, a reprint is not a first edition.
- Title Page
- A page at the front of a book which may contain the title of the book, any subtitles, the authors, contributors, editors, the...
- Copyright page
- The page in a book that describes the lineage of that book, typically including the book's author, publisher, date of...
- Bumps
- Indicates that the affected part of the book has been impacted in such a way so as to cause a flattening, indention, or light...
- Device
- Especially for older books, a printer's device refers to an identifying mark, also sometimes called a printer's mark, on the...
- Edges
- The collective of the top, fore and bottom edges of the text block of the book, being that part of the edges of the pages of a...
- 12mo
- A duodecimo is a book approximately 7 by 4.5 inches in size, or similar in size to a contemporary mass market paperback. Also...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Spine
- The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....
- Verso
- The page bound on the left side of a book, opposite to the recto page.
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