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ADAMS, SAMUEL HOPKINS A. Woollcott, His Life and His World
NY: Reynal & Hitchcock, c. 1945. Hardcover; Second Printing. Binding is quite soiled with minor wear. Some minor contents soil. Slightly canted. Spine darkened, lettering clear. No DW. Good - . ; Index. 16p B&W photos . Light tan cloth, green lettering . BIOBRAPHY. American author. Alexander Woollcott will be longer remembered for what he was than for what he did. He was often difficult and always unpredictable; and 'the nobleness that lies, sleeping but never dead, ' in the human soul was so encrusted in his harshness or levity as to be too often indiscernible except by his chosen intimates. "It is unfortunate, perhaps unfair...that a man is judged not on how he faces the rare and heroic emergency, but on how he conducts his busines of daily living and association...In this small commerce of existence, Alexander Woollcott could be unconscionably petty, irascible, impatient, offensive, and inconsistent. Important issues...he met with balanced temper, a fine conviction, inflexible courage and principle...His quarrelsome and unwholesome tongue was a foil to his good deeds, which were many and which he jealously kept secret while painstakngly publicizing his vices. " ; 8-1/4" Tall; 386 pages. G- .
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