Author: WILSON, EDMUND
Title: Poets, Farewell!
Description: NY: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1929. 0890961115. First Edition Thus. First Printing. Hard Cover. ISBN: 0890961115. Quarter bound in publisher's black cloth over brown linen boards (in Mylar), gilt lettering and decoration on front cover, fore-edge deckle, title page decorated in green and black. Edmund Wilson (1895-1972) was an American writer, literary and social critic, and man of letters. Wilson was the managing editor of Vanity Fair in 1920 and 1921, and later served as associate editor of The New Republic and as a book reviewer for The New Yorker and The New York Review of Books. His works influenced novelists Upton Sinclair, John Dos Passos, Sinclair Lewis, Floyd Dell, and Theodore Dreiser. Selected by President Kennedy to receive the Presidential Medal of Freedom, Wilson, in absentia, was officially awarded the medal on December 6, 1963 by President Johnson.. Spine is very slightly rubbed, else pristine, unmarked, tight, square and clean. NEAR FINE. 8vo 8" - 9" tall. 78 pp. Near Fine with no dust jacket .
Keywords: 0890961115 Poetry Presidential Medal of Freedom Criticism Novels, Poetry & Literature
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Title: Poets, Farewell!
Description: NY: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1929. 0890961115. First Edition Thus. First Printing. Hard Cover. ISBN: 0890961115. Quarter bound in publisher's black cloth over brown linen boards (in Mylar), gilt lettering and decoration on front cover, fore-edge deckle, title page decorated in green and black. Edmund Wilson (1895-1972) was an American writer, literary and social critic, and man of letters. Wilson was the managing editor of Vanity Fair in 1920 and 1921, and later served as associate editor of The New Republic and as a book reviewer for The New Yorker and The New York Review of Books. His works influenced novelists Upton Sinclair, John Dos Passos, Sinclair Lewis, Floyd Dell, and Theodore Dreiser. Selected by President Kennedy to receive the Presidential Medal of Freedom, Wilson, in absentia, was officially awarded the medal on December 6, 1963 by President Johnson.. Spine is very slightly rubbed, else pristine, unmarked, tight, square and clean. NEAR FINE. 8vo 8" - 9" tall. 78 pp. Near Fine with no dust jacket .
Keywords: 0890961115 Poetry Presidential Medal of Freedom Criticism Novels, Poetry & Literature
Price: US$ 50.00 Seller: Round Table Books, LLC
- Book number: 20050
- Book number: 20050
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