Sonnets to an Imaginary Madonna
by Fisher, Vardis
- Used
- Very Good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good
- Seller
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Charlottesville, Virginia, United States
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About This Item
E-018: Harold Vinal. Very Good. 1927. Hardcover. Hardcover. 8vo. Harold Vinal, New York, 1927. 47 pgs. First Edition/First Printing. DJ has shelf-wear present to the DJ extremities (DJ is missing the spine). Bound in black paper covered cloth boards with paper titles present to the spine and front board. Boards have shelf-wear present to the extremities (spine is scuffed at the spine ends). No ownership marks present. Text is clean and free of marks. Binding tight and solid. Vardis Fisher's first book and his first book of poetry. Vardis Alvero Fisher, sometimes written Yardis Fisher, (March 31, 1895 July 9, 1968) was an American writer from Idaho who wrote popular historical novels of the Old West. After studying at the University of Utah and the University of Chicago, Fisher taught English at the University of Utah and then at the Washington Square College of New York University until 1931. He worked with the Federal Writer's Project to write the Works Project Administration The Idaho Guide, which was published in 1937. In 1939, Fisher wrote Children of God, a historical novel focused on the early Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. The novel won the Harper Prize. In 1940, Fisher moved to Hagerman, Idaho, and spent the next twenty years writing the 12-volume Testament of Man (19431960) series of novels, depicting the history of humans from cavemen to civilization. Fisher's novel Mountain Man (1965) was adapted in the film Jeremiah Johnson (1972). EB; 8vo 8" - 9" tall .
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- Bookseller
- Last Exit Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 68558
- Title
- Sonnets to an Imaginary Madonna
- Author
- Fisher, Vardis
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Publisher
- Harold Vinal
- Place of Publication
- E-018
- Date Published
- 1927
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