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Sixty photographs : to celebrate the sixtieth anniversary of Alfred A. Knopf, publisher / Alfred A. Knopf.
LIBRA - Rare NX90 .K56 1975 Potok copy
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Knopf, Alfred A., 1892-1984.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Artists--Portraits.
- Artists.
- Genre:
- Portraits.
- Penn Provenance:
- Potok, Adena (donor) (Potok Collection copy)
- Potok, Chaim (inscription) (Potok Collection copy)
- Physical Description:
- 61 pages : portraits ; 23 cm
- Edition:
- [First edition].
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Alfred A. Knopf : [Distributed by Random House], 1975.
- Contents:
- Joseph Conrad
- John and Ada Galsworthy
- Hugh Walpole
- Henry Mencken
- George Jean Nathan
- Ernest Newman
- Witter Bynner
- Elinor Wylie
- Khalil Gibran
- Willa Cather
- Max Beerbohm
- Leonard Woolf
- Arthur Waley
- Sigrid Undset
- Thomas Mann and Hermann Hesse
- Heinrich Mann
- Thomas Mann
- Henri de Montherlant
- Jules Romains
- Rebecca West
- Aldous Huxley
- André Gide
- André Maurois
- Walter de la Mare
- Wallace Stevens
- Norman Rockwell
- John Munro Woolsey
- W. R. Burnett
- Robert Nathan
- Dorothy Canfield Fisher and Blanche W. Knopf
- Aaron Copland
- Myra Hess
- Jascha Heifetz
- Boris Karloff
- Serge Koussevitzky
- Yousef Karsh
- Raymond Chandler
- Eric Ambler
- John Hersey
- Eleanor Roosevelt
- Jean-Paul Sartre
- Albert Camus
- Elizabeth Bowen
- William Maxwell
- I. J. Singer
- Conrad Richter
- Ivy Compton-Burnett
- Frank O'Connor
- Shirley Ann Grau
- Muriel Spark
- Hammond Innes
- Roald Dahl
- Kenneth Millar (Ross Macdonald)
- Julia Child
- Yukio Mishima
- Yasunari Kawabata
- Jorge Amado
- Lillian Hellman
- John Updike
- Alfred A. Knopf and Arthur Rubinstein.
- Notes:
- "This is a Borzoi Book published by Alfred A. Knopf, Inc."
- "First Edition."
- Prefatory Note by Alfred A. Knopf pasted on front free endpaper ( ...it was conceived and executed by a few of my younger colleagues as a birthday gift to me and to AAK Inc.").
- "The text of this book was set in Olympus, a film version of Trump Mediaeval."--A Note About the Type.
- "The book was designed by Earl Tidwell."
- Local Notes:
- Potok Collection copy presented to the Penn Libraries by Adena Potok.
- Potok Collection copy: dustjacket retained.
- Potok Collection copy inscribed "For Chaim Potok with great admiration from his publisher anniverary 1975".
- Other Format:
- Online version: Knopf, Alfred A., 1892-1984. Sixty photographs.
- ISBN:
- 0394498925
- 9780394498928
- 0394730976
- 9780394730974
- OCLC:
- 1502221
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