Pictures from an Institution: A Comedy [Inscribed and Signed]
by Randall Jarrell
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- Very Good
- Signed
- Condition
- Very Good/Very Good
- Seller
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Washington, District of Columbia, United States
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About This Item
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1955. Very Good/Very Good. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1955. Fourth Printing. Octavo; publisher's cloth in unclipped pictorial dust jacket, red topstain; vii,[1],277pp. Moderate wear to jacket extremities, spine panel a shade sunned, light soil to lighter portions, verso faintly foxed, else Very Good and sound overall, nicer than often encountered. Inscribed and signed on front free endpaper "For French Haynes / with all best wishes, Randall and Mary Jarrell."
The author's only novel, a comedic portrait of a fictitious American women's college, inspired by the author's time at Sarah Lawrence College. This later printing, dated nine months after the first, is bedecked with blurbs from Wallace Stevens, Jean Stafford, Robert Penn Warren, James Agee, and many others.
The author's only novel, a comedic portrait of a fictitious American women's college, inspired by the author's time at Sarah Lawrence College. This later printing, dated nine months after the first, is bedecked with blurbs from Wallace Stevens, Jean Stafford, Robert Penn Warren, James Agee, and many others.
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- Bookseller
- Capitol Hill Books, ABAA (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 28381
- Title
- Pictures from an Institution: A Comedy [Inscribed and Signed]
- Author
- Randall Jarrell
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- Alfred A. Knopf
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1955
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- Publisher's cloth
- A hardcover book comprised of cloth over hard pasteboard boards. ...
- Verso
- The page bound on the left side of a book, opposite to the recto page.
- Sunned
- Damage done to a book cover or dust jacket caused by exposure to direct sunlight. Very strong fluorescent light can cause slight...
- Inscribed
- When a book is described as being inscribed, it indicates that a short note written by the author or a previous owner has been...
- Spine
- The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Foxed
- Foxing is the age related browning, or brown-yellowish spots, that can occur to book paper over time. When this aging process...