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LIZZIE BORDEN: A DANCE OF DEATH
by de Mille, Agnes
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/Good
- Seller
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Eugene, Oregon, United States
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About This Item
Boston: Little, Brown & Co, 1968. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Good. Boston, MA: Little, Brown & Co., 1968. First edition. 8 1/4 x 5 1/2 inches: pp. xii, 302. Illustrated paper dust jacket with white and orange type - original sketch for the scenery of FALL RIVER LEGEND by Oliver Smith. Red cloth boards with black gilt type and titles in pink box. With index, numerous photographs.
Dust jacket has edge wear, several closed tears of various sizes, some chipping, creasing, and a small bit of abrasive damage at the bottom of spine area. Name written on inside flap of dust jacket and on upper edge of first white recto page. Boards have edge wear, some rubbing. Smll bit of soiling on foot of pages. Text is unmarked. Binding tight.
Choreographer Agnes de Mille's personal account of the creation of her ballet, FALL RIVER LEGEND, based on the grizzly Lizzie Borden hatchet murders in Fall River, Massachusetts.
Dust jacket has edge wear, several closed tears of various sizes, some chipping, creasing, and a small bit of abrasive damage at the bottom of spine area. Name written on inside flap of dust jacket and on upper edge of first white recto page. Boards have edge wear, some rubbing. Smll bit of soiling on foot of pages. Text is unmarked. Binding tight.
Choreographer Agnes de Mille's personal account of the creation of her ballet, FALL RIVER LEGEND, based on the grizzly Lizzie Borden hatchet murders in Fall River, Massachusetts.
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- Bookseller
- Joe Pettit Jr., Bookseller; Blackwood Bookhouse
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 882
- Title
- LIZZIE BORDEN: A DANCE OF DEATH
- Author
- de Mille, Agnes
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- Little, Brown & Co
- Place of Publication
- Boston
- Date Published
- 1968
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
Joe Pettit Jr., Bookseller; Blackwood Bookhouse
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Eugene, Oregon
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- Recto
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- Chipping
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- Rubbing
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- Cloth
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