It is sometime after the turn of the century in Lamptown, Ohio, a working-class town filled with factory girls. Every Thursday night at the Casino Dance Hall above Bauer's Chop House and across the street from Elsinore Abbott's Bon Ton Hat Shop and Bill Delaney's Saloon and Billiard Parlor, women and a few men gather to escape their pedestrian lives in fantasy, and sometimes to live out these fantasies. Observing all are the novel's two young protagonists, Morry, who dreams of becoming an architect and developer, and Jen, ...
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It is sometime after the turn of the century in Lamptown, Ohio, a working-class town filled with factory girls. Every Thursday night at the Casino Dance Hall above Bauer's Chop House and across the street from Elsinore Abbott's Bon Ton Hat Shop and Bill Delaney's Saloon and Billiard Parlor, women and a few men gather to escape their pedestrian lives in fantasy, and sometimes to live out these fantasies. Observing all are the novel's two young protagonists, Morry, who dreams of becoming an architect and developer, and Jen, an unsentimental orphan of fourteen who, abandoned by her mother, dreams of escape.
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Add this copy of Dance Night: Dawn Powell to cart. $9.82, very good condition, Sold by SELL BOOKS LTD rated 5.0 out of 5 stars, ships from London, LONDON, UNITED KINGDOM, published 2000 by Steerforth Wholesale.
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Very good. Our books are dispatched from a Yorkshire former cotton mill. We list via barcode/ISBN so please note that the images are stock images and may not be the exact copy you receive, furthermore the details about edition and year might not be accurate as many publishers reuse the same ISBN for multiple editions and as we simply scan a barcode or enter an ISBN we do not check the validity of the edition data when listing. If you're looking for an exact edition please don't order (at least not wit.
Add this copy of Dance Night to cart. $47.00, good condition, Sold by modlitbooks rated 5.0 out of 5 stars, ships from San Francisco, CA, UNITED STATES, published 1930 by A. L. Burt.
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Good. Early reprint edition of Dawn Powell's fourth novel and the author's favorite of her own works. Full orange cloth, lacking dust jacket but part jacket flap pasted down to front free endpage. A stamp to front and rear endpages "Property of The Fiction Libraries Schenectady, N. Y." no other markings. Some worming to bottom right corner of first pages, soiling to covers and some internal pages, spine slanted. Sold with all faults. Uncommon.
Add this copy of Dance Night to cart. $137.00, very good condition, Sold by Between the Covers-Rare Books rated 5.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Gloucester City, NJ, UNITED STATES, published 1930 by A.L. Burt.
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Very Good. Reprint. Owner name front fly, endpapers a little darkened, a very good copy lacking the dustwrapper. A reprint of the author's exceptionally uncommon fourth book, the reprint itself is scarce. Powell was a prolific, and well-regarded but until a relatively recent and well-deserved revival, mostly forgotten author. For forty years she was a valued jewel of the New York literary world and if you read her books it's easy to see why.
Add this copy of Dance Night to cart. $382.00, good condition, Sold by Between the Covers-Rare Books rated 5.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Gloucester City, NJ, UNITED STATES, published 1930 by Farrar and Rinehart.
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Good. First edition. A bit of fraying at the crown, and a little soiling to the boards, a good copy without dustwrapper. The author's exceptionally uncommon fourth book, and considered the finest of her "Ohio" novels. Powell was a prolific, and well-regarded but until a relatively recent and well-deserved revival, mostly forgotten author. For forty years she was a valued jewel of the New York literary world and if you read her books it's easy to see why.
Add this copy of Dance Night to cart. $507.00, very good condition, Sold by Between the Covers-Rare Books rated 5.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Gloucester City, NJ, UNITED STATES, published 1930 by A.L. Burt.
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Near Fine in Very Good jacket. Reprint edition. Modest wear at the edges of the boards, else near fine in an attractive, very good dust jacket wrapper with modest chipping at the spine ends, and several small nicks and creased tears. An attractive copy of this reprint of the author's exceptionally uncommon fourth book, the reprint itself is exceptionally uncommon. Powell was a prolific and well-regarded, but, until a relatively recent and well-deserved revival, mostly forgotten author. For forty years she was a valued jewel of the New York literary world and if you read her books it's easy to see why. Scarce in jacket.
Add this copy of Dance Night to cart. $807.00, like new condition, Sold by Between the Covers-Rare Books rated 5.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Gloucester City, NJ, UNITED STATES, published 1930 by A.L. Burt.
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Fine in Good jacket. Reprint. A tiny, faint stain at the bottom of the first couple of leaves, else fine in an attractive, good plus dustwrapper with several small chips, tears, and internal repairs. A pleasing copy of this reprint of the author's exceptionally uncommon fourth book, the reprint itself is exceptionally uncommon. Powell was a prolific and well-regarded, but, until a relatively recent and well-deserved revival, mostly forgotten author. For 40 years she was a valued jewel of the New York literary world and if you read her books it's easy to see why. Any jacketed copy of this title and of this vintage is very scarce.
Add this copy of Dance Night to cart. $5,957.00, like new condition, Sold by Books Of Choice rated 5.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Bloomington, MN, UNITED STATES, published 1930 by Farrar & Rinehart.
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Fine book in a very good dust jacket. 298 pages. First edition, first printing. Her fourth novel which she considered her finest. Near fine book with the spine a hint soiled in a very good+ dust jacket with the corners lightly worn and the orange device on the spine faded. A beautiful copy!
Add this copy of Dance Night to cart. $6,507.00, very good condition, Sold by Between the Covers-Rare Books rated 5.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Gloucester City, NJ, UNITED STATES, published 1930 by Farrar and Rinehart.
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Near Fine in Very Good jacket. First edition. Neat contemporary owner name on title page, else fine in very attractive very good or better black and green dust jacket with a couple of modest tears on the rear panel, and a small stain visible only on the inside of the jacket [N.B. : we've also seen both a black and orange variant of the jacket, as well as a black and blue variant, with no established priority]. A very pleasing copy of the author's exceptionally uncommon fourth book, and considered the finest of her "Ohio" novels. Powell was a prolific and well-regarded author, but mostly forgotten until a well-deserved revival was prompted by a 1987 reassessment by Gore Vidal in *The New York Review of Books*. For 40 years she was a valued jewel of the New York literary world and if you read her books it's easy to see why. Ernest Hemingway once referred to her as his "favorite living novelist". At the time of her death all of her books were out of print, now almost all are back in print, including two collections of her novels published by the Library of America. This particular title is exceptionally scarce in jacket, and is one of the two nicest jacketed copy we've seen.
