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Fifty years : being a retrospective collection of novels, novellas, tales, drama, poetry, and reportage and essays (whether literary, musical, contemplative, historical, biographical, argumentative, or gastronomical) all drawn from volumes issued during the last half-century by Alfred and Blanche Knopf over this sign and device [The borzoi].
by Clifton Fadiman; Warren Chappell; Alfred A. Knopf, Inc.,; Hadden Craftsmen, Inc,; S.D. Warren Company,; Photogravure and Color Company
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About This Item
New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 1965.. 8vo. 1088 pp. Hard cover. Very Good. Illustrated green cloth covered boards with black quarter cloth spine. Minor shelf wear. Bump on top right corner. B&W plates. Deckled pages. Contents: The Gentleman from San Francisco / Ivan Bunin -- The Stranger / Albert Camus -- A Lost lady / Willa Cather -- Farewell, my lovely / Raymond Chandler -- The Immoralist / Andre Gide -- Death in Venice / Thomas Mann -- Mario and the magician / Thomas Mann -- Enoch Soames / Max Beerbohm -- The Demon lover / Elizabeth Bowen -- Two friends / Willa Cather -- Dusky Ruth / A.E. Coppard -- The Landlady / Roald Dahl -- Seaton's aunt / Walter de la Mare -- The Celestial omnibus / E.M. Forster -- El Ombu / W.H. Hudson -- The Man who loved islands / D.H. Lawrence -- The Fly / Katherine Mansfield -- The Loneliness of the long-distance runner / Alan Sillitoe -- Snowing in Greenwich Village / John Updike -- No exit / Jean-Paul Sartre. From the collection of the late Frederick Ruffner, Jr., founder of Gale Research, Detroit.
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- Title
- Fifty years : being a retrospective collection of novels, novellas, tales, drama, poetry, and reportage and essays (whether literary, musical, contemplative, historical, biographical, argumentative, or gastronomical) all drawn from volumes issued during the last half-century by Alfred and Blanche Knopf over this sign and device [The borzoi].
- Author
- Clifton Fadiman; Warren Chappell; Alfred A. Knopf, Inc.,; Hadden Craftsmen, Inc,; S.D. Warren Company,; Photogravure and Color Company
- Book Condition
- Used
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 1965.
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