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Selected Letters, 1932-77 by Fante, John; Cooney, Seamus ed - 1991

by Fante, John; Cooney, Seamus ed

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Selected Letters, 1932-77 by Fante, John; Cooney, Seamus ed - 1991
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Selected Letters, 1932-77

by Fante, John; Cooney, Seamus ed

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Santa Rosa: Black Sparrow Press, 1991. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Signed, deluxe edition of this collection edited by Seamus Cooney. Signed by Joyce Fante and Cooney on tipped in page. This is copy #7 out of 176 copies handbound in boards by Earle Gray. Very good condition with some bumping to edges of boards and gift inscription by former owner on the page listing other works by John Fante. Original glassine jacket very good with a couple small scuffs to rear panel else minimal wear.

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  • Edition 1st Edition
  • Binding Hardcover
  • ISBN 10 0876858337
  • ISBN 13 9780876858332
  • Publisher Black Sparrow Press
  • Place of Publication Santa Rosa
  • Date Published 1991
  • Pages 300

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John Fante:  Selected Letters, 1932-1981
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John Fante: Selected Letters, 1932-1981

by Fante, John

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Santa Rosa: Black Sparrow Press, 1991. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. Black Sparrow Press, Santa Rosa, 1991. Hardcover. Condition: Fine. First Edition-limited hard cover in clear dust jacket, cloth backed, illustrated boards with paper label to spine. No flaws slight wear on dust jacket. NUMBER 37 from the limited printing of 176 copies. SIGNED by Joyce Fante and Seamus Cooney (Editor).
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Selected Letters: 1932-1981. Edited by Seamus Cooney.

Selected Letters: 1932-1981. Edited by Seamus Cooney.

by [Literary Letters] Fante, John

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Santa Rosa ::: Black Sparrow Press,,, 1991... First Printing of the First US Edition. A Fine tight unread copy in a Fine acetate dust jacket. This is 1/176 copies signed by the editor Seamus Cooney. This selection of Fante's letters trace his emergence from poverty to life as a Hollywood screenwriter, and the book is complemented by many photos and interesting appendices. The book is most distinguished by Fante's letters to his mother and also sheds light on his novel Ask the Dust, unequivocally his masterpiece, and will likely answer a lot of readers' questions about what was purely fiction and what was taken whole cloth from life.
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