I Knew a Phoenix

by Sarton, May

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I Knew a Phoenix: Sketches for an Autobiography -- with TLS from Sarton
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I Knew a Phoenix: Sketches for an Autobiography -- with TLS from Sarton

by Sarton, May

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1959
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New York: Rinehart and Co, 1959. First edition. Hardcover. Very Good+/Very Good. 1959, First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good+ in a Very Good dust jacket, price-clipped. Includes lengthy TLS from the author on her stationery with holograph corrections and additions. The letter is from 1973, written by Sarton weeks before she departed her lifelong home of Nelson Village, New… Read more about this item
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I Knew a Phoenix

I Knew a Phoenix

by Sarton, May

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New York: W W Norton & Company, Inc, 1968. Second edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo. [12], 11-222, [10] pp. Blue cloth with green lettering on the front board and gold lettering on the spine. Green endpapers and pastedowns. Price of $5.00 on the top corner of the front jacket flap. Illustrated with several black and white photographs.… Read more about this item
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I Knew a Phoenix: Sketches for an Autobiography

I Knew a Phoenix: Sketches for an Autobiography

by Sarton, May (1912-1995)

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New York: Rinehart & Company, 1959. First edition, first printing, with the publisher's R cartouche on the copyright page. Patterned gray hardcover with bright orange spine, with dustjacket. Very good with light edge rubbing, good hinges, firm text block, clean pages, no names or other markings. The mylar protected dustjacket is not priceclipped [3.75] and is also very good with… Read more about this item
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New York, New York, U.S.A. : Rinehart& Company, Inc.. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Very Fine/Very Fine. Signed by author on ffep in black fountain ink, followed by the words 'Presented to Eleanor (Clifton), a friend of hers. Sarton's memoir begins with her roots in a Belgian childhood and describes her youth and education in Cambridge, Massachusetts, her… Read more about this item
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I KNEW A PHOENIX: Sketches for an Autobiography.

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New York:: Rinehart,, 1959.. SIGNED hardcover first edition -. Near fine in a fair only dust jacket (fading to spine, closed tear with associated creasing and a small chip at upper edge of front cover of dj, other wear at ends of spine, foxing to flaps of dj.) . First printing. Memoirs of her Belgian background, the influence… Read more about this item
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I KNEW A PHOENIX: Sketches for an Autobiography.

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I Knew a Phoenix: sketches for an autobiography

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New York: Rinehart & Company, 1959. Hardcover. 222p., ownership name in ink on fep otherwise a very good first edition in orange quarter-cloth over decorative boards with price-clipped, lightly-worn dj. Grier C**.
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I Knew a Phoenix: Sketches for an Autobiography

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New York: W.W. Norton & Company, 1959. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. First edition thus. 222pp. Corners and spine ends lightly bumped, near fine in a price-clipped very good dust jacket with slight tanning, rubbing and modest wear to the extremities. Reissued after the success of its sequel, *Plant Dreaming Deep*, in the previous year.
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1959
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I KNEW A PHOENIX,; sketches for an autobiography
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London: Peter Owen, 1964. Reprint of the first Commonwealth edition of 1963, 2nd impression). 8vo, pp. 222. A very good copy in slightly chipped dj. (Blouin p. 36; Grier p. 135.). Inscribed by Sarton: "To Karen and Walter Webster | with all good wishes | ... York (?) May ' 82" The first of the autobiographical works.
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I Knew A Phoenix: Sketches for an Autobiography

by SARTON, May

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I KNEW A PHOENIX: Sketches for an Autobiography.

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New York:: Norton,, n.d. [1969.]. Hardcover -. Fine in a good only dust jacket (several edgetears to dj, with taped repairs on the interior, price-clipped.). First thus. Reissued as a companion piece to her other autobiographical work, 'Plant Dreaming Deep.' Memoirs of her Belgian background, the influence of her parents, her years at Shady Hill school in Cambridge,… Read more about this item
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