Burning City

New York: Farrar, Rinehart, (1936).

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Hardcover. First edition. Full leather stamped in gilt, slightly rubbed, else fine in lightly worn, near fine slipcase. Copy 177 of 275 numbered copies Signed by the author. A volume of poetry by the two-time Pulitzer-winner.

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Item #25816 Burning City. Stephen Vincent BENÉT.

Stephen Vincent Benet
birth name: Stephen Vincent Benet
born: 7/22/1898
died: 3/13/1943

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Poet, novelist, and writer of short stories, best known for John Brown's Body (1928), a long narrative poem on the Civil War... Benet's best-known short story, "The Devil and Daniel Webster" (1937), was the basis for a play, and opera by Douglas Moore, ad a motion picture. - Merriam-Webster's Encyclopedia of Literaturemore