Three novellas, written after Porter's return from her four-year stay in Paris. "From there," she said in a letter, "I got a perspective and somehow without struggle my point-of-view fell into clear focus..." The three novellas are "Pale Horse, Pale Rider", drawn directly from Porter's experience of near-death from influenza in the 1918 epidemic; "Noon Wine", widely considered to be one of her best works, about a hapless farmer who inadvertently comes into conflict with a stranger and ends up killing both him and himself; ...
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Three novellas, written after Porter's return from her four-year stay in Paris. "From there," she said in a letter, "I got a perspective and somehow without struggle my point-of-view fell into clear focus..." The three novellas are "Pale Horse, Pale Rider", drawn directly from Porter's experience of near-death from influenza in the 1918 epidemic; "Noon Wine", widely considered to be one of her best works, about a hapless farmer who inadvertently comes into conflict with a stranger and ends up killing both him and himself; and "Old Mortality", another of Porter's tales of young Miranda, her perennial autobiographical stand-in.
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Near Fine in Very Good jacket. Later printing. Fine in a price-clipped very good dust jacket with light tanning, a tiny dampstain at the crown and a faint orange mark on the spine.
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Dust jacket in good condition. Shelf and handling wear to cover and binding, with general signs of previous use. PRICE CLIPPED. Secure packaging for safe delivery.
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Dust jacket in good condition. Shelf and handling wear to cover and binding, with general signs of previous use. ***1949 PRINTING*** New protective mylar applied to dust jacket. Secure packaging for safe delivery.
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Good. 1939. Hardcover. Lightly scored copy in original cloth covers. Covers sunned to spine and showing light shelf wear. Previous owner's ex-libris plate to FFEP. Lacking dust wrapper but remains a good copy.....We ship daily from our Bookshop.
Add this copy of Pale Horse, Pale Rider: Three Short Novels to cart. $45.00, very good condition, Sold by Between the Covers-Rare Books rated 5.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Gloucester City, NJ, UNITED STATES, published 1949 by Modern Library.
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Near Fine in Very Good jacket. First Modern Library edition. Orange-red cloth stamped in black. Near fine in a price-clipped about very good dust jacket nearly split at rear fold of the tanned spine, and with faint soil and light edgewear.
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Near Fine in Very Good jacket. First edition. Usual slight toning at the extremities of the boards, else near fine in very good price-clipped dust jacket with toning at the spine. Advance Review Copy with publisher's rubber stamped date. Author's uncommon second book.
Add this copy of Pale Horse, Pale Rider: Three Short Novels to cart. $450.00, very good condition, Sold by Between the Covers-Rare Books rated 5.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Gloucester City, NJ, UNITED STATES, published 1939 by Harcourt, Brace and Company.
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Near Fine in Very Good jacket. First edition. Neat contemporary owner name, slight toning at the extremities of the boards, else near fine in very good dust jacket with toning, small stains, and shallow loss at the spine. Advance Review Copy with publisher's gelatin silver photograph of the author by noted photographer George Platt Lynes laid in. Author's uncommon second book.
