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Less Than a Treason: Hemingway in Paris
by Peter Griffin
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- Fine
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Fine/fine
- ISBN 10
- 019505332X
- ISBN 13
- 9780195053326
- Seller
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About This Item
Oxford University Press, 1990. First edition. Hardcover. fine/fine. First Edition. Hardcover. A fine fresh example, in a fine, crisp dust jacket. 197 pages with index. The second book in Griffin's multi-volume biography of Ernest Hemingway. Where the first volume brough Hemingway from childhood to his 1921 marriage to Hadley Richardson, this volume vividly recaptures his early ex-patriate years in Paris, when he published his first important collection of stories "In Our Time" as well as his finest novel "The Sun Also Rises". This work provides intimately detailed rendering of the subject's life, replete with physical detain--the sights and sounds of working class Paris, skiing trip to the Austrian Alps, the running of the bulls in Pamplona, etc as well as of his friendships wigth Gertrude Stein, Scott Fitzgerald, Ezra Pound, and Maxwell Perkins.
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- Bookseller
- The Old Book Shop of Bordentown (ABNJ)
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- E16164
- Title
- Less Than a Treason: Hemingway in Paris
- Author
- Peter Griffin
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine
- Jacket Condition
- fine
- Quantity Available
- 2
- Edition
- First edition
- ISBN 10
- 019505332X
- ISBN 13
- 9780195053326
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1990
- Keywords
- literature, biography, hemingway, paris, expatriate,
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The Old Book Shop of Bordentown (ABNJ)
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Bordentown, New Jersey
About The Old Book Shop of Bordentown (ABNJ)
The Old Book Shop of Bordentown is a general used/rare bookshop open to the public Tues.-Sunday 11AM to 5PM (8 PM on Fridays). 10,000 books on premises with another 25,000 in stock. Areas of speciality include baseball, New Jersey, American literature, mysteries. Member, ABAA, ILAB,Antiquarian Booksellers of New Jersey. Located in historic Bordentown City, New Jeresy (est. 1682).
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