Fiestas, Moveable Feasts, and "Many Fetes": In Their Time / 1920-1940, An Exhibition at the University of Virginia Library. December 1977-March 1978
Columbia, SC: Bruccoli Clark, 1977. First printing. Paperback. First edition, 1977. Softcover 4to, np. Profusely illustrated in black and white, with color portrait of Hemingway bound in at the beginning. Publisher's untrimmed proof copy, with upper edge uncut and registration marks visible. In near fine condition with minor bumping to the lower incidental yapps. Though unstated, from the library of publisher Matthew J. Bruccoli. Matthew Joseph Bruccoli (1931-2008) was the foremost F. Scott Fitzgerald scholar and bibliographer of his time. Additionally, he wrote on, and edited critical editions of Hemingway, Hammett, Cozzens, Thomas Wolfe, John O'Hara, and Vladimir Nabokov. He studied bibliography under the tutelage of Fredson Bowers and worked with Jacob Blanck on the Bibliography of American Literature. He was responsible for the republication and rediscovery of dozens of forgotten American novels, and went on to be the editor and publisher of the 400+ volume Dictionary of Literary Biography, and was the chief editor of the University of Pittsburgh Press bibliography series. Near Fine. Item #z04699
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