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The assassins / by Frederic Prokosch.
Kislak Center for Special Collections - Rare Book Collection AC9 P9428 936a
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Prokosch, Frederic, 1908-1989.
- Language:
- English
- Genre:
- Poetry.
- Penn Provenance:
- Martin, Mrs. (inscription) (Culture Class Collection copy)
- Prokosch, Frederic, 1908-1989 (autograph) (Culture Class Collection copy)
- Physical Description:
- vii pages, 1 unnumbered page, 46 pages, 2 unnumbered pages ; 22 cm
- Edition:
- [First English edition].
- Manufacture:
- Edinburgh : Printed in Great Britain by R. and R. Clark Ltd.
- Place of Publication:
- London : Chatto & Windus, 1936.
- Contents:
- The assassins
- The voyage
- Alexandria
- Daybreak
- The dolls
- Andromeda
- Empty provinces
- The cliffs
- The watcher
- The funeral
- The Piazza
- The Adriatic
- The Azores
- Letter
- Port Said
- Chorus
- Going southward
- The masks
- The isthmus
- After midnight
- The tragedians
- The Gothic dusk
- The ruins
- The Baltic shore
- The sacred wood
- The conspirators
- Pastoral
- The dictators
- Elegy
- Song.
- Notes:
- With half-title.
- Author's first book of poetry.
- Brown cloth spine lettered in gilt; light brown and black patterned paper boards.
- Local Notes:
- Culture Class Collection copy inscribed "For Mrs. Martin in memory of two delightful evenings from Frederic Prokosch"
- OCLC:
- 897197
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