The Human Comedy
by WILLIAM SAROYAN
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Hardcover. First Edition, First Printing 1943. Condition: Fine. Dustjacket: Fine, with slight rubbing on edges. Illustrated by D/Fine
- Seller
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Potomac, Maryland, United States
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About This Item
New York: Harcourt, Brace and Co., 1943. First Edition. Hardcover. Hardcover. First Edition, First Printing 1943. Condition: Fine. Dustjacket: Fine, with slight rubbing on edges. Illustrated by Don Freeman. Binding solid, with no markings, other than prior owners signature on front free endpaper. Red cloth boards bright with black line illustration on cover, black lettering on spine, illustrated front flyleaf. A lovely copy in rare condition. Saroyan was an Armenian-American novelist, playwright, and short story writer. He was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Drama in 1940, and in 1943 won the Academy Award for Best Story for the film The Human Comedy. When the studio rejected his original 240-page treatment, he turned it into a novel, The Human Comedy, which itself was the basis for the 1983 musical of the same name. One of the most prominent writers of the mid-20th century, Kurt Vonnegut said that Saroyan was 'the first and still the greatest of all the American minimalists.' Used/Fine.
Synopsis
A novel of an American family in wartime.
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- Bookseller
- Grinning Cat Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 31513
- Title
- The Human Comedy
- Author
- WILLIAM SAROYAN
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Hardcover. First Edition, First Printing 1943. Condition: Fine. Dustjacket: Fine, with slight rubbing on edges. Illustrated by D
- Jacket Condition
- Fine
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- Harcourt, Brace and Co.
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1943
- Bookseller catalogs
- LITERATURE;
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