Author: COURNOS, JOHN (EDITOR)
Title: American Short Stories of the Nineteenth Century (Everyman's Library #840)
Description: London / New York: Everyman's Library - J. M. Dent & Sons Ltd. / E. P. Dutton & Co, Inc, 1951. Hardcover. A 1951 reprint of the 1930 issuance. An Everyman's Library edition presenting 20 short stories by American authors such as Twain, Poe, Hawthorne, Melville, London and many others. The stories are arranged so as to show the progression of their craft by American storytellers. Edited, and with an introduction, by John Cournos. Number 840 in Everyman's Library Fiction series. --- In EL binding style 3 with full carmine cloth-covered boards and gilt-stamped spine titling; blindstamped Eric Ravilious-designed 'shell' to cover and brown topstain. In red dust jacket with Ravilious 'knot' design to front panel. --- With sunning to spine ends and general age-toning to leaves, else a tightly-bound and unmarked copy. Dust jacket with chips, chafing and creasing to extremities. A couple of tears have been repaired with tape on verso of spine, otherwise intact and wrapped in new removable archival mylar protector.; 16mo - 6 to 7 in. tall; xii, 372 pages. Very Good in Good dust jacket .

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