Portraits from Life
Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1937. First Edition. Large 8vo. 9-9/16" x 6-1/2". Cornflower blue cloth covered boards stamped in silver. 227 pp. Only a touch (barely a trace) of darkening along the top and bottom edges of cover. Overall a tight, clean, unrubbed lovely copy. Fine. / Jacket chipped along top and bottom of spine and along edges. 1/2" deep chip at top edge of back panel. Overall sturdy and serviceable. Price of $3.00 on front flap. Protected with mylar dust jacket.
Memories and Criticisms of Henry James, Joseph Conrad, Thomas Hardy, H. G. Wells, Stephen Crane, D. H. Lawrence, John Galsworthy, Ivan Turgenev, W. H. Hudson, Theodore Dreiser, Algernon Charles Swinburne.
Frontispiece photo-portrait of W. H. Hudson. Also, photo-portraits of Stephen Crane, Joseph Conrad, D. H. Lawrence, Thomas Hardy, John Galsworthy, Ivan Turgenev and Theodore Dreiser.
Eleven titans of literature are described and appraised in this distinguished and original book by one who knew them all. This is the way biographies should be - pungent, intimate, slightly satirical, and completely illuminating. To read this book is to know these men better than they knew themselves.
Item #1397
Price: $95.00