Author: Kerr, Sophie.
Title: Confetti. A Book of Short Stories.
Description: New York: George H. Doran Company, (1927). (1927). - Octavo, 7-3/4 inches high by 5-3/8 inches wide. Green cloth titled in darker green on the front cover and the spine, in the original dust wrapper decorated with depictions of color confetti. The publisher's pictorial advertisements decorate the verso (inner side) of the jacket) The front and rear endpapers and pastedowns replicate the color decorations adorning the jacket. There are a couple of tiny tears to the bottom edge of the lightly soiled dust jacket with a piece chipped from the head of the jacket's spine. The bottom edge of the jacket's spine is dampstained with a smaller matching stain to the book's spine. 320 pages with the publisher's device on the title page. There is some foxing to the top, bottom and fore edges of the book with soiling to the top. The are a couple of tiny tears to the darkened front edge of the rear endpaper with light dampstaining to the bottom front corner of that leaf. Very good. First edition, first printing with the publisher's "GHD" symbol on the copyright page. SCARCE in the dust jacket. The prolific early 20th century author Sophie Kerr (1880-1965) wrote stories featuring smart ambitious women as protagonists. Much like her protagonists, Kerr was small town girl who became a successful career woman at a time where few women could become financially self-sufficient. Moving to New York City, Kerr supported herself as a magazine editor and wrote more 500 short stories and 23 novels. She also authored several poems and a Broadway play. In 1965, Sophie Kerr funded an endowment for Maryland's Washington College to award an annual literary prize to support promising young writers. The prize is the nation's largest undergraduate literary prize and is considered one of the largest in the world, greater than the sums awarded by the Pulitzer Prize as well as the National Book Award and National Book Critics Circle. Good .
Keywords: LITERATURE; SOPHIE KERR; CONFETTI; SHORT STORIES; FICTION; FIRST EDITION; 1ST EDITION; 1ST PRINTING; TWENTIETH CENTURY; 20TH CENTURY; GEORGE H. DORAN COMPANY; SOPHIE KERR PRIZE; WASHINGTON COLLEGE; CHESTERTOWN, MARYLAND; DUST JACKET.
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Title: Confetti. A Book of Short Stories.
Description: New York: George H. Doran Company, (1927). (1927). - Octavo, 7-3/4 inches high by 5-3/8 inches wide. Green cloth titled in darker green on the front cover and the spine, in the original dust wrapper decorated with depictions of color confetti. The publisher's pictorial advertisements decorate the verso (inner side) of the jacket) The front and rear endpapers and pastedowns replicate the color decorations adorning the jacket. There are a couple of tiny tears to the bottom edge of the lightly soiled dust jacket with a piece chipped from the head of the jacket's spine. The bottom edge of the jacket's spine is dampstained with a smaller matching stain to the book's spine. 320 pages with the publisher's device on the title page. There is some foxing to the top, bottom and fore edges of the book with soiling to the top. The are a couple of tiny tears to the darkened front edge of the rear endpaper with light dampstaining to the bottom front corner of that leaf. Very good. First edition, first printing with the publisher's "GHD" symbol on the copyright page. SCARCE in the dust jacket. The prolific early 20th century author Sophie Kerr (1880-1965) wrote stories featuring smart ambitious women as protagonists. Much like her protagonists, Kerr was small town girl who became a successful career woman at a time where few women could become financially self-sufficient. Moving to New York City, Kerr supported herself as a magazine editor and wrote more 500 short stories and 23 novels. She also authored several poems and a Broadway play. In 1965, Sophie Kerr funded an endowment for Maryland's Washington College to award an annual literary prize to support promising young writers. The prize is the nation's largest undergraduate literary prize and is considered one of the largest in the world, greater than the sums awarded by the Pulitzer Prize as well as the National Book Award and National Book Critics Circle. Good .
Keywords: LITERATURE; SOPHIE KERR; CONFETTI; SHORT STORIES; FICTION; FIRST EDITION; 1ST EDITION; 1ST PRINTING; TWENTIETH CENTURY; 20TH CENTURY; GEORGE H. DORAN COMPANY; SOPHIE KERR PRIZE; WASHINGTON COLLEGE; CHESTERTOWN, MARYLAND; DUST JACKET.
Price: US$ 125.00 Seller: Blue Mountain Books & Manuscripts, Ltd.
- Book number: 97523
- Book number: 97523
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