Author: Hergesheimer, Joseph
Title: Swords and Roses
Description: New York, Alfred A. Knopf, 1929. Signed Limited Edition. Hardcover. Signed limited edition, one of 225 numbered copies; Octavo, pp. (vi), (2 )3-327; original tan buckram lettered and decorated in silver. A very good copy in acetate. Southern Americana; Civil War. Hergesheimer offers us this; "here is a book of swords, now wholly discarded, and of old-fashioned dark roses----vanished objects and flowers we both regard with an especial deeply personal regret. Well, they have existed for us only in imagination..and so we must write books, we must publish books and read them, in order to return, and only for a little while, to the simpler loveliness of the past. Very Good .
Keywords: Literature; Fiction; Historical Fiction; Southern Americana; CIVIL War.
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Title: Swords and Roses
Description: New York, Alfred A. Knopf, 1929. Signed Limited Edition. Hardcover. Signed limited edition, one of 225 numbered copies; Octavo, pp. (vi), (2 )3-327; original tan buckram lettered and decorated in silver. A very good copy in acetate. Southern Americana; Civil War. Hergesheimer offers us this; "here is a book of swords, now wholly discarded, and of old-fashioned dark roses----vanished objects and flowers we both regard with an especial deeply personal regret. Well, they have existed for us only in imagination..and so we must write books, we must publish books and read them, in order to return, and only for a little while, to the simpler loveliness of the past. Very Good .
Keywords: Literature; Fiction; Historical Fiction; Southern Americana; CIVIL War.
Price: US$ 75.00 Seller: Austin's Antiquarian Books
- Book number: 12410
- Book number: 12410
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