Author: Fisher, M. F. K.
Title: Among Friends. Inscribed
Description: New York, Alfred A. Knopf, 1971. 1st Edition. Hardcover. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Signed by Author. Fisher, M. F. K. AMONG FRIENDS. Inscribed. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, New York, 1971. First edition. 8vo. 306pp. 8vo. 306pp. Publisher's gray cloth stamped silver, green ep's. Warmly inscribed in black ink on the ffe: "For Marjorie Lindner / from M.F.K. Fisher / [Together, we are among / friends!] / Affectionately - / Bareacres Ranch / 1974" A fine fresh copy in like dustwrapper. Among Friends chronicles childhood recollections of growing up in Whittier, California, at the time still a predominately Quaker community. Fisher writes "The white children I knew when I was little had no need to be anything but well fed and secure in the best houses in town where they belonged to the best families. Their ancestors, buried in the Whittier cemetery or along the routes to California, had given up other homes just as solid, positions just as secure, to live their own lives as they saw fit, in a place where they could practice their beliefs unscorned. The settlement they named for their American poet would be theirs, and theirs it was when we came to it. /Dust Jacket Included.
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Title: Among Friends. Inscribed
Description: New York, Alfred A. Knopf, 1971. 1st Edition. Hardcover. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Signed by Author. Fisher, M. F. K. AMONG FRIENDS. Inscribed. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, New York, 1971. First edition. 8vo. 306pp. 8vo. 306pp. Publisher's gray cloth stamped silver, green ep's. Warmly inscribed in black ink on the ffe: "For Marjorie Lindner / from M.F.K. Fisher / [Together, we are among / friends!] / Affectionately - / Bareacres Ranch / 1974" A fine fresh copy in like dustwrapper. Among Friends chronicles childhood recollections of growing up in Whittier, California, at the time still a predominately Quaker community. Fisher writes "The white children I knew when I was little had no need to be anything but well fed and secure in the best houses in town where they belonged to the best families. Their ancestors, buried in the Whittier cemetery or along the routes to California, had given up other homes just as solid, positions just as secure, to live their own lives as they saw fit, in a place where they could practice their beliefs unscorned. The settlement they named for their American poet would be theirs, and theirs it was when we came to it. /Dust Jacket Included.
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Price: US$ 675.00 Seller: TBCL The Book Collector's Library
- Book number: 31679
- Book number: 31679
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