Author: JAFFE, Rona
Title: The Best of Everything
Description: 1958. JAFFE, Rona. THE BEST OF EVERYTHING. New York: Simon and Schuster, (1958). First edition, inscribed: "For Theodore Morrison, who -- if anyone can do such a thing -- taught me how to write. Sincerely - Rona Jaffe" and dated June 18, 1958. Theodore Morrison, the American writer and poet, was director of compsition classes at Harvard University and, for many years, was associated with the Breadloaf Writer's Conference. 437 pp. 8vo. tan cloth back, with silver gilt title on a red rectangle printed at spine, red paper sides with facsimile signature in silver-gilt to upper board, top-edge stained dark brown. The paper has browned significantly due to poor paper quality; the book block is shaken and split in one place; the endpapers are foxed. The binding is still quite bright despite light soiling to cloth back and a touch of rubbing at corners. The condition is poor due to inferior materials used in the maufacture of this book, but it is Jaffe's first book and contains a genuinely warm inscription. .

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