Hemingway: The Writer's Art of Self-Defense
by BENSON, Jackson J
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- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
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- Seller
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Galena, Illinois, United States
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About This Item
Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1969. Hardcover. 8vo. Orange cloth with black spine lettering, dust jacket. x, 202pp. Near fine/very good. Mild dust jacket rubbing, with slightly sunned spine. A tight and nice first edition of a notable "close critical analysis of five of Ernest Hemingway's novels and a number of his most important short stories" -- from the library of academic and literary critic Joseph J. Waldmeir (1923-2013), author of "Hemingway: Up in Michigan Perspectives," who is cited on page 177 and who makes a few pencil squiggles and a couple of pencilled margin comments.
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- Bookseller
- Main Street Fine Books & Manuscripts, ABAA (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 39752
- Title
- Hemingway: The Writer's Art of Self-Defense
- Author
- BENSON, Jackson J
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- University of Minnesota Press
- Place of Publication
- Minneapolis
- Date Published
- 1969
- Bookseller catalogs
- Books; Literary Criticism;
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