CONFESSIONS OF A YOUNG MAN (ML# 16.1, Spring 1929, 159 Titles Listed at Back)

MOORE, GEORGE, Written by (1852-1933) Irish novelist, Short-Story Writer, Poet, Art Critic, Memoirist and Dramatist; Introduction by Floyd Dell, Complete and Unabridged.

Published by New York: Modern Library Edition, SPRING 1929

About this Item

RARE, DIFFICULT TO FIND. DJ is Bright Yellow and Navy Blue; has 159 Titles listed on back; 95 cents on front flap; Per Scott Kamin: has Dostoyevsky's Brothers K, does not have Chaucer title, making this Spring 1929; chips on top near spine and tiny chips of bottom spine edge. BOOK: covered in Green Balloon cloth; Spine 5; gold torchbearer on front is leaping right; gold authors name and title with large grape-tree on spine; Kent Endpapers; green topstain; previous owners name on front endpaper, "John Smoddy", neatly written. STORY: In writing style The Confessions of a Young Man is presented as a novel, with a hero named Dayne, but the reader assumes in essence it is an autobiography, a true "confession". Dayne (i.e. Moore) went to Paris as a teenager, and almost becomes a full Parisian nearly forgetting the English language after 15 years. SHEPARDSON BOOKSTALL, 20 YEARS OF ABEBOOKS EXCELLENCE.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: CONFESSIONS OF A YOUNG MAN (ML# 16.1, Spring 1929, 159 Titles Listed at Back)
• Publisher: New York: Modern Library Edition, SPRING 1929
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: Very Good
• Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good
• Seller catalogs:
  • Modern Library with DJ
  • Modern Library Edition