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A New York Public Library commonplace book : honoring the Literary Lions, 1981-1990.
LIBRA - Rare PN6245 .C64 1990 Potok copy
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LIBRA - Special PN6245 .C64 1990
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- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Commonplace books.
- Penn Provenance:
- Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copy)
- Potok, Adena (donor) (Potok Collection copy)
- Physical Description:
- 123 pages, 1 unnumbered page : illustrations ; 24 x 26 cm
- Other Title:
- Commonplace book
- Place of Publication:
- [New York] : New York Public Library, 1990.
- Contents:
- People & places
- History
- Parents & children
- Pleasures & sorrows
- Literature & the arts
- Food & fashion
- Nature
- Science & technology
- Politics & government
- The world today.
- The food of forgiveness / Raymond Carver
- Mourning
- and gleaming / Tess Gallagher.
- Notes:
- "This edition is limited to 2,000 copies privately printed by the Library for the November 8, 1990 celebration 'A Decade of Literary Lions'."
- "Here are selections, each, for the most part, chosen by its author, from the works of 200 writers. The authors were honored over the past ten years as Literary Lions by the New York Public Library"--Introduction.
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 118-123).
- Local Notes:
- Potok Collection copy presented to the Penn Libraries by Adena Potok.
- Potok Collection copy has [1] loose leaf with correction to page 58 laid in.
- ISBN:
- 0871044234
- 9780871044235
- OCLC:
- 24248802
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