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American Authors and Their Homes
by Stephanie Kraft Chicago: Rand McNally & Company, (1979). First edition. Illustrated with a generous supply photographs of the authors' houses, interior rooms, and portraits. Kraft focuses on a sense of place as she looks at the homes, living spaces, and environments where thirty authors chose to live, were influenced by, and had evocative feelings about. Some of the authors included are Mark Twain, Jack London, Emily Dickinson, John Steinbeck, F. Scott Fitzgerald, William Faulkner, and et al. Fine, square and very tight in fresh tan linen with metallic-red embossed titles to the front cover and to the spine, brown-and-yellow headband and tail-band; in a fine dust jacket; original printed $9.95 price still intact to the front inner flap. Octavo; 239 pages, directory of author's homes; notes on sources. PLEASE VIEW FOR MORE GREAT FIRST EDITION BOOKS THANKS! |