Becoming Modern: the life of Mina Loy by [Loy, Mina] Carolyn Burke - 1996

Farrar, Straus & Giroux. Used - Very Good. Used book that is in excellent condition. May show signs of wear or have minor defects.

Farrar Straus & Giroux (T), 1996-07. Hardcover. Good.

New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1996. ix, 493 pages, illustrations; 25 cm. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Spine rolled at the crown, lower right corners lightly bumped. Stated First Edition. Dust jacket protected in a mylar cover. "The poet and visual artist Mina Loy (1882-1966) has long had an underground reputation as an exemplary avant-gardist. Born in London of mixed Jewish and English parentage, and a much photographed beauty, she moved in the pivotal circles of international modernism - in Florence as Gertrude Stein's friend and Marinetti's lover; in New York as Marcel Duchamp's co-conspirator and Djuna Barnes's confidante; in Mexico with her greatest love, the notorious boxer-poet Arthur Cravan; in Paris with the Surrealists and Man Ray. Carolyn Burke's riveting, authoritative biography brings this highly original and representative figure wonderfully alive, in the process giving us a new picture of modernism - and one woman's important contribution to… Read More

New York : Farrar Straus & Giroux, 1996. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. 493 pages. Notes, bibliography, index. 16 pages of photos. Comprehensive biography. Interior fine, crisp and celan. Some light wear to cover. In complete dust jacket in a mylar protector.

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New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1996. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. First edition. 493pp. Illustrated with black and white plates. Fine in a fine dust jacket.

Farrar Straus & Giroux, 1996-07-01. hardcover. New. 6x1x9.

Farrar Straus & Giroux, 1996-07-01. Hardcover. New. New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title!