Questo sito usa cookie di analytics per raccogliere dati in forma aggregata e cookie di terze parti per migliorare l'esperienza utente.
Leggi l'Informativa Cookie Policy completa.

Livres anciens et modernes

Cable

OLD CREOLE DAYS

Charles Scribner?s Sons, 1898

495,00 €

Buddenbrooks Inc.

(Newburyport, États-Unis d'Amérique)

Demander plus d'informations

Mode de Paiement

Détails

Année
1898
Lieu d'édition
New York
Auteur
Cable
Éditeurs
Charles Scribner?s Sons
Langues
Anglais

Description

An early printing, this copy INSCRIBED BY THE AUTHOR AND WITH PLEASING ASSOCIATION PROVENANCE. Frontispiece etching by Percy Moran. 8vo, publisher's original green cloth with gilt rules to the covers and gilt lettering to the spine. Ivory colored cameo stamped on upper board. In a green cloth clamshell box with black morocco lettering label. 330 pp. near fine with just light wear to the extremities of the cloth.

Edizione: inscribed by the author on the title page, and with association ownership provenance signature to the free-fly: ?a story is much like a cameo, it consists so largely in the little that is left after much has been cut away, yours truly g.w. cable, princeton, n.j. jan?y 15, 1902?. a letter is laid in, dated 1960. it tells how the book was first given to s.r. trowbridge by the author when mr. trowbridge hosted the author at the monday night club in princeton. the letter is addressed to another steve trowbridge, presumably a grandson.<br> a collection of seven romantic tales, this was cable's first published book.