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The Intellectual Follies: A Memoir of the Literary Venture in New York and Paris
by Abel, Lionel
- Used
- near fine
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Near Fine/Near Fine
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Hopewell, New Jersey, United States
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About This Item
Small Quarto (9 1/2 x 6 1/4 inches; 240 x 160 mm), 304 pages, in half cloth over boards, titles in gilt to spine, in an unclipped dust jacket (hard cover).
Life among the intellectuals of Paris and New York by the playwright, theatre critic and translator, Lionel Abel (1910-2001). He was close to the Surrealists and translated the works of a number of French writers.
CONDITION: Rubbing to extremities, light soiling to fore and bottom edges. Near Fine in a Near Fine dust jacket with a few tiny nicks and some rubbing.
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- Le Bookiniste, ABAA-ILAB-IOBA
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 691
- Title
- The Intellectual Follies: A Memoir of the Literary Venture in New York and Paris
- Author
- Abel, Lionel
- Book Condition
- Used - Near Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Near Fine
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- W.W. Norton & Company
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1984
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- Literary History
- Bookseller catalogs
- Literary History;
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