Across the River and into the Trees
500,00kr
Across the River and into the Trees.
Jonathan Cape, London 1950, 1st edition, 8vo, publisher’s green cloth in dust jacket, 254 pp, worn dust jacket with creasing and tears, including a 2 cm tear to the front fold, back of dust jacket slightly discoloured, no inscriptions, a good copy.
«Venice is the scene, and Colonel Richard Cantwell of the United States Army is the principal figure. The Colonel — once for a short spell a Brigadier General — is in middle life, a man of fierce pride who too soon is nearing the end of his physical tether. […] a love story, tender and moving, but bitter under the inexorable shadow of what must come. Venice is part of it, a Venice whose canals, bars and cosmopolitan hotel life are at first less less familiar under a winter sky, […]»
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Across the River and into the Trees.
Jonathan Cape, London 1950, 1st edition, 8vo, publisher’s green cloth in dust jacket, 254 pp, worn dust jacket with creasing and tears, including a 2 cm tear to the front fold, back of dust jacket slightly discoloured, no inscriptions, a good copy.
«Venice is the scene, and Colonel Richard Cantwell of the United States Army is the principal figure. The Colonel — once for a short spell a Brigadier General — is in middle life, a man of fierce pride who too soon is nearing the end of his physical tether. […] a love story, tender and moving, but bitter under the inexorable shadow of what must come. Venice is part of it, a Venice whose canals, bars and cosmopolitan hotel life are at first less less familiar under a winter sky, […]»
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