Happy Families Are All Alike
by Taylor, Peter
- Used
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- See description
- Seller
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Boston, Massachusetts, United States
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About This Item
NY: McDowell Obolensky, 1959. First edition. Inscribed to Jean Stafford and her third husband, New Yorker writer A. J. Liebling. Taylor's titular riff on Anna Karenina's famous opening line heralds the tenor of many of his compiled stories. Bound in full green cloth. Some toning, dampstain to tail inconsequential to interior pages, else very good in very good dust wrapper, overall lightly toned and with dampstain visible at verso.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Bromer Booksellers (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 33382
- Title
- Happy Families Are All Alike
- Author
- Taylor, Peter
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- McDowell Obolensky
- Place of Publication
- NY
- Date Published
- 1959
- Bookseller catalogs
- Literature;
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
Bromer Booksellers
Biblio member since 2008
Boston, Massachusetts
About Bromer Booksellers
Bromer Booksellers specializes in rare and beautiful books. Owned and operated by Anne Bromer, who has been in the business of fine books for over fifty years, our shop carries a range of important private press books, designer bookbindings, illustrated books, children's books, and miniature books.
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- Tail
- The heel of the spine.
- Verso
- The page bound on the left side of a book, opposite to the recto page.