The Bottom Of The Harbor
de MITCHELL, Joseph
- Usado
- First
- Estado
- A tiny nick to the head of the spine, otherwise a fine copy in a slightly rubbed & chipped jacket.
- Librería
-
Deep River, Connecticut, United States
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Sobre este artículo
Boston: Little Brown & Co, (1959). First edition. Presentation copy, inscribed on the front free endpaper: "for Daise Terry, with love, Joe Mitchell, June 9, 1960". Daisy Terry was the office manager at the New Yorker, where Mitchell was employed as a staff writer for most of his career; he continued to appear at the office daily until the end of his life, though in his last years he appears to have written nothing at all. This is Mitchell's third book, containing the story "Up at the Old Hotel", which would serve as the title piece of his collected works, issued by Pantheon in 1992. A tiny nick to the head of the spine, otherwise a fine copy in a slightly rubbed & chipped jacket.. 8vo, boards, dust jacket. A tiny nick to the head of the spine, otherwise a fine copy in a slightly rubbed & chipped jacket.
Sinopsis
Joseph Mitchell came to New York from North Carolina the day after the 1929 stock market crash. After eight years as a reporter and feature writer at various newspapers, he joined the staff of The New Yorker, where he remained until his death in 1996 at the age of eighty-seven. His other books include McSorley's Wonderful Saloon, My Ears Are Bent, Up in the Old Hotel, Old Mr. Flood, and Joe Gould's Secret.
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- Librería
- James S. Jaffe Rare Books LLC
(US)
- Inventario del vendedor #
- 10971
- Título
- The Bottom Of The Harbor
- Autor
- MITCHELL, Joseph
- Estado del libro
- Usado - A tiny nick to the head of the spine, otherwise a fine copy in a slightly rubbed & chipped jacket.
- Cantidad disponible
- 1
- Edición
- First edition. Presentation copy, inscribed on the front free en
- Editorial
- Little Brown & Co
- Lugar de publicación
- Boston
- Fecha de publicación
- (1959)
- Palabras clave
- en
- Catálogos del vendedor
- SIGNED/INSCRIBED; MODERN FIRSTS;
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James S. Jaffe Rare Books LLC
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James S. Jaffe Rare Books LLC
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Deep River, Connecticut
Sobre James S. Jaffe Rare Books LLC
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