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Sacred and profane memories / by Carl Van Vechten.
LIBRA PS3543.A653 Z5 1932
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Athenaeum of Philadelphia - Rare Books Collection PS3543.A653 Z5 1932
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Van Vechten, Carl, 1880-1964.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Van Vechten, Carl, 1880-1964.
- Van Vechten, Carl.
- Physical Description:
- viii, 230, xvii-xx pages : illustrations, portraits ; 23 cm
- Place of Publication:
- New York : A. A. Knopf, 1932.
- Contents:
- The tin trunk.
- The folksongs of Iowa.
- Au bal musette.
- How Mr. George Moore rescued a lady from embarrassment.
- An interrupted conversation.
- The nightingale and the peahen.
- July-August 1914.
- The Holy Jumpers.
- La Tigresse.
- Feathers.
- A note on breakfasts.
- Notes for an autobiography.
- Notes:
- "This, the first edition ... consists of two thousand copies of which this is number 192."
- "The papers included in this collection have been garnered from books long out of print and from the files of yesteryear's periodicals."--Foreword.
- Bibliography: pages xvii-xx.
- OCLC:
- 1442555
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