The Cubical City (Lost American Fiction) Unknown - 1974

Carbondale and Edwardsville: Southern Illinois University Press, 1974. Book. Very Good+. Hardcover. Clean hardcover book in unclipped original dust jacket. Black cloth boards with red lettering and decoration on spine. No bumping or fraying. Binding is tight and square, hinges are sound. Clean red endpapers - no names, writing or bookplates. Pages and edges are clean. 433 pages. Dust jacket has light surface rubbing, a few short closed edge tears, not price clipped; photo portrait of author on rear panel; enclosed in new archival quality removable mylar cover. First edition thus - from the "Lost American Fiction" series - Southern Illinois edition of this book that was originally published in 1926 by Putnam. A quite scarce novel on the jazz age in New York City..

Southern Illinois University Press, 1974. First Thus. Trade Paperback. Like New/Very Good. First Thus. Published by Southern Illinois University Press, 1974. Octavo. Black boards stamped in orange. Book is very good; clean with no writing or names. Sharp corners and spine straight. Binding tight and pages crisp. Price-clipped dust jacket is very good with shelf wear and tears. 433 pages. ISBN: 0809307006. 100% positive feedback. 30 day money back guarantee. NEXT DAY SHIPPING! Excellent customer service. Please email with any questions or if you would like a photo. All books packed carefully and ship with free delivery confirmation/tracking. All books come with free bookmarks. Ships from Southampton, New York. We Buy Books! Individual titles, libraries, collections. Message us if you have books to sell!

Flanner, Janet. The Cubical City. A Novel. Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press, 1974. First Reprint Edition. ISBN: 0809307006. Near Fine in Very Good dust jacket. Slight rubbing to jacket extremities. This is a reprint of Flanner's only published novel which originally appeared in 1926. In "The Cubical City," she provides an extraordinary—and memorable—glimpse of the young artist in New York during the Jazz Age. In an Afterword written for this new edition she discusses the writer's craft and her early schooling in and dedication to it. The story concerns the young, talented, and liberated Delia Poole who, after emerging from the Middle West and after a period of struggle, is enjoying success as a costume designer for New York musical reviews. In love with New York, established in her own studio, and en­joying life, she finds her life complicated by Paul, the impecunious suitor, and by the death of her father and her mother's removal to New York.

12mo (7 3/8 x 5 1/4 inches; 190 x 135 mm), 433, [1] pages, in publisher's original black cloth, titles to spine in red, in an illustrated, unclipped dust jacket.
INSCRIBED on the title page to New York antiques dealer Korby Britton: "For Korby Britton, whose interest / in novels published long before her / own time make her almost a kind / of literary antiquarian -- / with best wishes from / Janet Flanner / New York January 1975." (Flanner, or perhaps someone else, wrote "her" over the original "his" and "him.")
A reissue of Flanner's 1926 novel on the Jazz Age in New York, with a short Afterword by the author. Flanner (1892-1978) was, of course, the longtime Paris columnist of The New Yorker, writing under the name Genêt. This is a review copy and includes two copies of the publisher's slip, a news release, and a one-page biography.
The recipient, Korby Britton (d. 2016), operated a New York antiques business with Julie Belafonte, wife of singer and actor Harry Belafonte. Korby's husband, Burt… Leer más