Parties: A Novel of Contemporary New York Life

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1930.

Price: $500.00

Hardcover. First edition. A small stain on the top edge, boards a bit soiled, an about very good copy without dustwrapper. Nicely Inscribed by the author: "For Emilio in memory of the time when we will go to parties again [three words indecipherable] Carlo. September 2, 1942."

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Item #282241 Parties: A Novel of Contemporary New York Life. Carl VAN VECHTEN.

Carl Van Vechten
birth name: Carl Van Vechten
born: 6/17/1880
died: 12/21/1964

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American novelist and music and drama critic, an influential figure in New York literary circles in the 1920s; he was an early enthusiast of American black culture. - Merriam-Webster's Encyclopedia of Literaturemore