Fifty years : being a retrospective collection of novels, novellas, tales, drama, poetry, and reportage and essays (whether literary, musical, contemplative, historical, biographical, argumentative, or gastronomical) all drawn from volumes issued during the last half-century by Alfred and Blanche Knopf over this sign and device [The borzoi].

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Published by New York : Alfred A. Knopf., 1965

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8vo. 1088 pp. Hard cover. Very Good. Illustrated green cloth covered boards with black quarter cloth spine. Minor shelf wear. Bump on top right corner. B&W plates. Deckled pages.Contents: The Gentleman from San Francisco / Ivan Bunin --The Stranger / Albert Camus --A Lost lady / Willa Cather --Farewell, my lovely / Raymond Chandler --The Immoralist / Andre Gide --Death in Venice / Thomas Mann --Mario and the magician / Thomas Mann --Enoch Soames / Max Beerbohm --The Demon lover / Elizabeth Bowen --Two friends / Willa Cather --Dusky Ruth / A.E. Coppard --The Landlady / Roald Dahl --Seaton's aunt / Walter de la Mare --The Celestial omnibus / E.M. Forster --El Ombu / W.H. Hudson --The Man who loved islands / D.H. Lawrence --The Fly / Katherine Mansfield --The Loneliness of the long-distance runner / Alan Sillitoe --Snowing in Greenwich Village / John Updike --No exit / Jean-Paul Sartre.From the collection of the late Frederick Ruffner, Jr., founder of Gale Research, Detroit. Seller Inventory # 17-2539

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Title: Fifty years : being a retrospective ...

Publisher: New York : Alfred A. Knopf.

Publication Date: 1965

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Good