Death of a Man
by Boyle, Kay
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Fine with no dust jacket
- Seller
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Palatine, Illinois, United States
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About This Item
NY: Harcourt, Brace & Company. Fine with no dust jacket. 1936. Stated First Edition. First Printing. Hard Cover. First Edition. First Printing. Octavo; full gray-green cloth, with titles stamped in silver on spine; orange topstain. Kay Boyle (1902 1992) was an American novelist, short story writer, educator, and political activist. She was a Guggenheim Fellow and O. Henry Award winner. In 1936, she wrote this novel, Death of a Man, set in Austria in the period of the Dollfuss regime, it is an attack on the growing threat of Nazism. . The spine is very lightly sunned, else as new; the volume is in otherwise perfect, pristine condition, unmarked, unread, tight, square, and clean. Scarce in this wonderful condition. NEAR FINE. . 8vo 8" - 9" tall. (vi), 321 pp .
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Details
- Bookseller
- Round Table Books, LLC (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 29411
- Title
- Death of a Man
- Author
- Boyle, Kay
- Format/Binding
- Hard Cover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine with no dust jacket
- Edition
- Stated First Edition. First Printing
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Harcourt, Brace & Company
- Place of Publication
- NY
- Date Published
- 1936
- Keywords
- Literature, novels, Fiction, Politics, Nazism, Nazis, Austria, Kay Boyle
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
Round Table Books, LLC
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Palatine, Illinois
About Round Table Books, LLC
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- Cloth
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- First Edition
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- Tight
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- Sunned
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- Jacket
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- Spine
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- Fine
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