One Half So Precious
by Farness, Kate
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good+ in Very Good dj
- Seller
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Los Angeles, California, United States
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About This Item
New York: Dodd, Mead & Company. Very Good+ in Very Good dj. (c.1955). First Edition. Hardcover. NOISBN . (price-clipped) [minor wear evident at spine ends, a couple of tiny dents/nicks in bottom edges of covers; jacket has a couple of tiny chips and additional shallow chipping along top edge, small tears and slight paper loss at several corners, some wear along spine joints]. Novel set during the 1920s, with locations ranging from Florida to Minnesota, about a family man (wife and six children) who takes up cross-border bootlegging to make ends meet. The author's first and apparently only published book, although she seems to have later enjoyed a bit of a local reputation as a playwright in Tucson, Arizona; a scholarship in her name was established posthumously at the University of Arizona School of Education. (The jacket bio claims that she'd spent four years in Hollywood, "first as a writers' secretary and then as a continuity writer," although I've found no evidence that she achieved any screenwriting credits.) .
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- Bookseller
- ReadInk (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 20770
- Title
- One Half So Precious
- Author
- Farness, Kate
- Illustrator
- (dj) Mircea Vasiliu
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good+ in Very Good dj
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- Dodd, Mead & Company
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- (c.1955)
- Keywords
- NOISBN, Twenties, Bootleggers, Family Life, Fathers, Florida, Minnesota, First Novel
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- First Edition
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- Chipping
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