Sacred and profane memories
By: by Carl Van Vechten.
Publisher: A. A. Knopf
Published: 1932
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 230
Notes: Bibliography: p. xvii-xx.
"This, the first edition ... consists of two thousand copies of which this is number 866."
"The papers included in this collection have been garnered from books long out of print and from the files of yesteryear's periodicals."--Foreword.
Table of contents: title: The tin trunk.; title: The folksongs of Iowa.; title: Au bal musette.; title: How Mr. George Moore rescued a lady from embarrassment.; title: An interrupted conversation.; title: The nightingale and the peahen.; title: July-August 1914.; title: The Holy Jumpers.; title: La Tigresse.; title: Feathers.; title: A note on breakfasts.; title: Notes for an autobiography.