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OUTWARD ROOM, THE
by Brand, Millen
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Near Fine in Very Good+ dust jacket
- Seller
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Tucson, Arizona, United States
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About This Item
New York: Simon & Schuster. Near Fine in Very Good+ dust jacket. 1937. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. 8vo; 309 pages; Jacket has light edgewear and minor rubbing. Previous owner's bookplate inside front cover. Book otherwise well taken care of. .
Synopsis
Millen Brand (1906–1980) was born in Jersey city, New Jersey, into a working-class family and was of Pennsylvania German descent on his mother’s side. Following graduation from Columbia University in 1929, he worked briefly as a psychiatric aide and for several years as a copywriter for the New York Telephone company before taking up faculty posts at the University of New Hampshire and New York University. The Outward Room , Brand’s first and most acclaimed novel, appeared in 1937, and was adapted for Broadway in 1939 as The World We Make. in 1948, with Frank Partos, he received an academy award nomination for his screenplay adaptation of Mary Jane Ward’s novel The Snake Pit . Brand’s association with members of the Hollywood Ten led to his questioning by the House Unamerican activities committee; he refused to cooperate, invoking the Fifth amendment. From the early 1950s to the early 1970s, Brand was an editor at crown Publishers. His other novels include The Heroes; Albert Sears; Some Love, Some Hunger ; and Savage Sleep . He was also the author of Local Lives , a book of poems about the Pennsylvania Dutch; a posthumously published account of his participation in the 1977 Peace March from Nagasaki to Hiroshima; and the text to Fields of Peace , a book of photographs by George Tice. Peter Cameron is the author of several novels, including Andorra , The Weekend , and most recently, Coral Glynn . He lives in New York City.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Circle City Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 178
- Title
- OUTWARD ROOM, THE
- Author
- Brand, Millen
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Near Fine in Very Good+ dust jacket
- Edition
- First Edition; First Printing
- Publisher
- Simon & Schuster
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1937
- Keywords
- Literature, Fiction
Terms of Sale
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Buying and selling used & collectible books in all catagories, with a specialty in Americana and Travel.
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- Fine
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- Good+
- A term used to denote a condition a slight grade better than Good.
- Rubbing
- Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Bookplate
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