Letty Fox: Her Luck.
de STEAD, Christina
- Usado
- Tapa dura
- First
- Estado
- Jacket darkened by cigarette smoke, with some chipping at edges and head and tail of spine. Scarce.
- Librería
-
Rochester, New York, United States
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Sobre este artículo
New York:: Harcourt, Brace and Company, , [1946].. First edition.. publisher's salmon cloth in pictorial dust jacket.. Jacket darkened by cigarette smoke, with some chipping at edges and head and tail of spine. Scarce.. 8vo,.
Sinopsis
Christina Stead (1902-1983) was born in Australia but lived for many years in London and New York, which she took as the settings for her major novels. She worked in banks and as a screenwriter while writing the acclaimed novels, The Man Who Loved Children, A House of All Nations , and Letty Fox: Her Luck . She returned to Australia in the early 1970s and lived there for the rest of her life. Tim Parks, a novelist, essayist, and translator, is Associate Professor of Literature and Translation at IULM University in Milan. His most recent novel is Dreams of Rivers and Seas .
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- Librería
- Jeffrey H. Marks Rare Books
(US)
- Inventario del vendedor #
- 7754
- Título
- Letty Fox: Her Luck.
- Autor
- STEAD, Christina
- Formato/Encuadernación
- Publisher's salmon cloth in pictorial dust jacket.
- Estado del libro
- Usado - Jacket darkened by cigarette smoke, with some chipping at edges and head and tail of spine. Scarce.
- Edición
- First edition.
- Encuadernación
- Tapa dura
- Editorial
- Harcourt, Brace and Company,
- Lugar de publicación
- New York:
- Fecha de publicación
- [1946].
- Páginas
- 517 pp.
- Tamaño
- 8vo,
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