The Story of a Novel
by Thomas Wolfe
- Used
- first
- Condition
- Very Good+/Very good
- Seller
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Washington, District of Columbia, United States
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About This Item
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1936. Very Good+/Very good. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1936. First Edition. Octavo; publisher's cloth in orange dust jacket retaining original price ($1.50); [8],93pp. Light shelf wear to jacket extremities, spine panel faded, endpapers toned, brief glue residue to front free endpaper from previously-removed label, else a Very Good, fresh and sound copy.
The novelist's cris-de-coeur describing his experience revising his first novel "Look Homeward, Angel," under the tutelage/iron fist of the editor Maxwell Perkins.
The novelist's cris-de-coeur describing his experience revising his first novel "Look Homeward, Angel," under the tutelage/iron fist of the editor Maxwell Perkins.
Synopsis
The Story of a Novel is a revised version of a lecture Wolfe gave at a writer's conference in Boulder, Colorado.
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- Bookseller
- Capitol Hill Books, ABAA (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 28516
- Title
- The Story of a Novel
- Author
- Thomas Wolfe
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good+
- Jacket Condition
- Very good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- Charles Scribner's Sons
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1936
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Capitol Hill Books, ABAA
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About Capitol Hill Books, ABAA
Capitol Hill Books is a used bookstore in the Eastern Market neighborhood of Washington, DC. We have three floors of quality used books, first editions, and rare books.
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