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The Broken Root

The Broken Root by Barea, Arturo; Ilsa Barea [Translator]

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Seller: Burnside Rare Books, ABAA
Title
The Broken Root
Author
Barea, Arturo; Ilsa Barea [Translator]
Seller
Burnside Rare Books, ABAA (United States)
Condition
Very Good
Description
New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1951. First American Edition. Very Good/About Very Good. First American edition. A nice association copy signed by Barea and warmly inscribed to Margaret Rink (Ilsa and Arturo's former housemate and good friend) in Spanish on the front free endpaper, "Para Margaret con un abraro de Arturo / Marro [sic] 1951." Her bookplate on paste down. [vi], 308 pp. Bound in publisher's green cloth blocked and lettered in silver at the spine. Very Good with lean to binding, damp staining at foot, moderate wear and light fraying to spine ends and corners. Newspaper clipping announcing the Faber publication of The Broken Root laid in at 146-147 pp resulting in offsetting. In a About Very Good unclipped dust jacket, chipped (including a small interior one in the rear panel), and a little dampstained. The Spanish author's first and only novel, a post-Civil War narrative about an exile returning to Francoist Spain. He fled the country in 1938 during the Civil War for France, then moved to England in 1939, where he worked for the BBC and wrote his famous autobiographical trilogy The Forging of a Rebel. Margaret Rink and Barea's wife Ilsa met in August 1939 when both were hired to work for German broadcasts at the BBC Monitoring Service at Evesham, Worcestershire. Ilsa, her Austrian refugee parents, Margaret, and Arturo Barea lived together for the next four years in a large rundown house called Brooklands in the village of Fladbury just outside of Birmingham.The couple remained good friends with Margaret all their lives.
The Ponder Heart

The Ponder Heart by Welty, Eudora

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Seller: Carpetbagger Books, ABAA
Title
The Ponder Heart
Author
Welty, Eudora
Seller
Carpetbagger Books, ABAA (United States)
Condition
Very Good
Description
New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1954. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Near Fine. Drawings by Joe Krush. About Very Good in a Near Fine jacket, clipped, lightly rubbed at the edges. Quarter grey cloth with pink paper on the boards, some moisture stains to both. Square and firmly bound, a small stain at the top edge, clean internally. Welty's novel of the generous Daniel Ponder who is eventually put on trial for the murder of his second wife.
Two Ladies

Two Ladies by Ansell, Charles R.A. (1752- ?)

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Title
Two Ladies
Author
Ansell, Charles R.A. (1752- ?)
Seller
Royoung bookseller, Inc. (United States)
Condition
Very good
Description
Np: Np, Nd. Very good. 29 x 23.5 cm. sepia stipple engraving by Edmund Scott (1758-1815), a pupil of Francesco Bartolozzi.
Contents and General Index of the Transactions of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers, Vol. I., 1880, to Vol. XX., 1899.

Contents and General Index of the Transactions of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers, Vol. I., 1880, to Vol. XX., 1899. by American Society of Mechanical Engineers.

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Title
Contents and General Index of the Transactions of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers, Vol. I., 1880, to Vol. XX., 1899.
Author
American Society of Mechanical Engineers.
Seller
Jeff Weber Rare Books (Switzerland)
Description
New York:: Published by the Society, 1899., 1899. 8vo. 188 pp. Brown cloth, gilt-stamped spine title; spine ends chipped. Very good.
Reflections

Reflections by Zhang, Gracey

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Title
Reflections
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Zhang, Gracey
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Bolerium Books Inc., ABAA/ILAB (United States)
Description
Self-published by the author, 2010. pamphlet. [26p.], slight sticker shadow on back wrap, else in very good condition.

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