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Noonday 1: stories, articles, poetry
by Cecil Hemley (ed.)
- Used
- good
- Paperback
- Condition
- Good
- Seller
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Harpers Ferry, West Virginia, United States
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About This Item
The Noonday Press, 1958. Soft cover. Good. 183 pages. Second printing. List of contributors with notes at the end. Contents of this inaugural issue of Cecil Hemley's fat journal Noonday include The Last Summer, a short novel by Boris Pasternak, with an introductory note by its translator, George Reavey; Isaac Bashevis Singer "A Tale of Two Liars"; William Earle "Notes on the Death of Culture"; Karl Jaspers essay "The Individual and the Collectivity". Trade paperback-size, wraps soiled, crease to spine, cocked, edges and inside covers age-toned with light foxing. Name of former owner Prof. Warner Berthoff written on ffep, his underscoring and/or marginalia on eight pages in the Jaspers article.
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- Bookseller
- Berthoff Books
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- WBB-1100
- Title
- Noonday 1: stories, articles, poetry
- Author
- Cecil Hemley (ed.)
- Format/Binding
- Soft cover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Paperback
- Publisher
- The Noonday Press
- Date Published
- 1958
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- VIOLA M. DICK, MARSHALL LEE, BORIS PASTERNAK, THE LAST SUMMER, KARL JASPERS, I.B. SINGER, GEORGE REAVEY, ERNST JUENGER
- Bookseller catalogs
- Politics; Russian and Soviet literature;
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Harpers Ferry, West Virginia
About Berthoff Books
Berthoff Books sells books previously owned by the late Warner B. Berthoff, Professor of English and American Literature, emeritus, at Harvard University, and members of his family. Some books contain marginalia by Warner Berthoff, the late Prof. Ann E. Berthoff (U. Mass-Boston, English composition and rhetoric), or others, which we aim to describe accurately. Our inventory features English and American fiction and poetry, 20th-century literary criticism, world literature, history, and philosophy. Other categories are history and politics of Australia, Asia, South Africa and the Middle East; intelligence agencies and gnostic beliefs; Russian literature and criticism; and Russian and Soviet history.
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- Generally refers to minor discoloration or staining.
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