920 O'FARRELL STREET.
by Levy, Harriet Lane
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very good+ in a fair dust jacket, with some some overall edgewear./fair
- Seller
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Ione, California, United States
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About This Item
Garden City, New York:: Doubleday,, 1947.. Hardcover first edition -. Very good+ in a fair dust jacket, with some some overall edgewear.. First printing. Written when the author was 80, this is the story of an orthodox American Jewish family in late 19th century San Francisco, and a memoir of the author's childhood. As a young woman, Levy went to Paris with Alice B. Toklas (her neighbor on O'Farrell Street), and was part of the circle of artists & bohemians which included Gertrude Stein, Picasso, Matisse and others, and where she began assembling a remarkable collection of the works of modern French artists
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- Bookseller
- Bookfever.com, IOBA (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 19766
- Title
- 920 O'FARRELL STREET.
- Author
- Levy, Harriet Lane
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover first edition -
- Book Condition
- Used - Very good+ in a fair dust jacket, with some some overall edgewear.
- Jacket Condition
- fair
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Doubleday,
- Place of Publication
- Garden City, New York:
- Date Published
- 1947.
- Keywords
- alice b toklas, san francisco, jewish-american childhood,
- Bookseller catalogs
- California;
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