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That Man Heine; A Biography
by Lewis Browne (AUTHOR SIGNED)
- Used
- Very Good
- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/Poor
- Seller
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WINFIELD, Kansas, United States
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About This Item
New York, NY: The Macmillan Company, 1927 The Macmillan Company, New York. 1927. Hardcover. First Edition (SD). signed by the author on the FFFP. Book is tight, square, and unmarked. Book Condition: Very Good; bumped head, tail, and upper tips; closed tear to title page near spine. DJ: Poor; corners clipped; NOT Price Clipped ($3.00); rear panel is missing; missing small pieces at top and bottom of front panel. Silver cloth boards with black overlay on the spine with bright silver lettering on the spine. 420 pp 8vo. This is the life story of Heinrich Heine who was a brilliant satirist and lyric poet in the early 1800s who gibed a generation into rebellion and made a whole world sing and weep. His life was one continuous storm of love, lust, wretchedness, strife, idealism, mendacity and sublime literary achievement. A clean presentable copy in a Brodart mylar jacket.
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- Bookseller
- Walnut Valley Books/Books by White
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 008215
- Title
- That Man Heine; A Biography
- Author
- Lewis Browne (AUTHOR SIGNED)
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Poor
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Publisher
- The Macmillan Company
- Place of Publication
- New York, NY
- Date Published
- 1927
- Size
- 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- Heinrich Heine, satirist, literature, lyric poet, France, Germany, writer,
- Bookseller catalogs
- Biographies;
Terms of Sale
Walnut Valley Books/Books by White
30 day return guarantee, with full refund including original shipping costs for up to 30 days after delivery if an item arrives misdescribed or in the unfortunate event, damaged. All books are packed and wrapped with care to avoid shifting during shipment and edge/tip strikes during the mailing process.
About the Seller
Walnut Valley Books/Books by White
Biblio member since 2018
WINFIELD, Kansas
About Walnut Valley Books/Books by White
Walnut Valley Books is a small independent home-based business with the bulk of my holdings being of an American military nature covering everything from the Revolutionary War to the current wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. I also have holdings of books on the Middle East, the southwestern United States (New Mexico especially, Kansas related titles, Oklahoma related titles, and other regionally specialized books. All of my holdings are hand-selected to be good quality books of interest to the reader, historian, or the collector. In addition to the above, you will also find a wide range of other topics such as Medical, US History, autobiographical, biographical, sports, women's studies, and many other eclectic topics.
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- Price Clipped
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- Tight
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- Cloth
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- Jacket
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- Tail
- The heel of the spine.
- Title Page
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