Erich Kahler
by Wolff, Eleanor and Steiner, Herbert (editors/translators)
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- Very Good
- Seller
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Hampden, Maine, United States
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About This Item
Metuchen, New Jersey: Van Vechten Press, 1951. First Edition, Limited . Hardcover. Very Good. Ben Shahn. One of 350 copies. 52, [4] pp. Green cloth, title gilt, frontispiece by Trude Fleischman, 2 illustrations by Ben Shahn. With inscription pasted to front pastedown from Charles Bell, one of the contributors and a close friend of Kahler's. Other contributors include Albert Einstein, John Barrymore, and Thomas Mann. Charles Bell, writer, poet, and scholar, grew up in Greenville, Mississippi with Walker Percy and Shelby Foote. His first novel, The Married Land, Houghton Mifflin, 1962, was praised by William Carlos Williams. His works include three volumes of poetry, two novels, and an audio-visual opus, "Symbolic History". Lightly sunned.
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- Bookseller
- Lippincott Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 4722B
- Title
- Erich Kahler
- Author
- Wolff, Eleanor and Steiner, Herbert (editors/translators)
- Illustrator
- Ben Shahn
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition, Limited
- Publisher
- Van Vechten Press
- Place of Publication
- Metuchen, New Jersey
- Date Published
- 1951
- Bookseller catalogs
- Philosophy & Religion;
- Note
- May be a multi-volume set and require additional postage.
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Lippincott Books
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Hampden, Maine
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