Great Modern Reading: W. Somerset Maugham's Introduction to Modern English and American Literature
by Maugham, W. Somerset (Ed.)
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- Very Good
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very Good/Very Good
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Garden City, NY: Nelson Doubleday, 1943. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Book Club Edition. Rust-colored cloth with gilt spine lettering. xvii, 614 pp. A couple of bumps to boards, dust jacket has numerous tears and a couple of tape repairs to the interior. Short stories, poems, and essays. Authors include Ernest Hemingway, F. Scott Fitzgerald, John Steinbeck, William Faulkner, William Saroyan, D. H. Lawrence, T. S. Eliot, Dorothy Parker, Virginia Woolf, and many others.
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- 000399
- Title
- Great Modern Reading: W. Somerset Maugham's Introduction to Modern English and American Literature
- Author
- Maugham, W. Somerset (Ed.)
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- Nelson Doubleday
- Place of Publication
- Garden City, NY
- Date Published
- 1943
- Keywords
- Literature, Anthologies, W. Somerset Maugham
- Bookseller catalogs
- Literature & General Fiction;
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- Gilt
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- Cloth
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- Book Club Edition
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- Spine
- The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....