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THE COLLECTED STORIES OF KATHERINE ANNE PORTER
by KATHERINE ANNE PORTER
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About This Item
PENNSYLVANIA: FRANKIN LIBRARY , 1980 Full Brown Leather with three raised bands and gilt blocked titles and decoration to spine and both boards, 2300 x 165 mm approx. Moire silk made end papers, attached silk marker, all edges gilt. xvi + 538 pp.Portrait frontis. A few unspecified duotone illustrations by Herbert Talissl. Limited Edition 1980 (limitation not stated) by Franklin Mint in it's series "The collected stories of the World's Greatest Writers" As New (Book- no defects, no previous owner name. Binding tight seemingly unread). Please see our images of the actual book offered for sale for further details and condition. Book will be packed in a purpose book box with additional internal protection.
Synopsis
Katherine Anne Porter born as Callie Russell Porter in Indian Creek, Texas, was the fourth of five children of Harrison Boone Porter and Alice Porter. Her family tree can be traced back to American frontiersman Daniel Boone. She was a Pulitzer Prize-winning American journalist, essayist, short story writer, novelist, and political activist. Porter’s novel, The Collected Stories Of Katherine Anne Porter won the National Book Award in 1966. The stories are mainly set in Texas, Mexico, Greenwich Village, Berlin and the Old South. In "The Cracked Looking Glass," Rosaleen's dream and stories collide with the mundane reality of life on a remote Connecticut farm. For 9-year-old Miranda, "The Grave," is her grandfather's empty one, now just a hole in the ground. And in yet another of her centerpieces is the tale of a spell cast by a mean-spirited New Orleans house Madam and related by a maid to her new employer in "Magic.” Porter writes with honest intelligence and with prose that is captivating and elegant.
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- Bookseller
- booksonlinebrighton
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 131688
- Title
- THE COLLECTED STORIES OF KATHERINE ANNE PORTER
- Author
- KATHERINE ANNE PORTER
- Illustrator
- HERBERT TAUSS
- Format/Binding
- Full Leather
- Book Condition
- New As New
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition Thus
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- FRANKIN LIBRARY
- Place of Publication
- PENNSYLVANIA
- Date Published
- 1980
- Keywords
- Collected Storie, Katherine Anne Porter, Herbert Taliss Illustrated, Franklin Library, Franklin Mint, Limited Editions, Leather Bindings,
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