Author: WINTERICH, John T.
Title: Writers in America 1842-1967: An Informal Glance at Some of the Authors Who Have Flourished Since the Establishment of the Davey Company One Hundred and Twenty-Five Years Ago
Description: Jersey City, NJ, The Davey Company, 1968. Hardcover. Illustrations by Fritz Kredel. Small 4to. Red cloth spine with gilt lettering and black blind-embossed cloth, slipcase. viii, 85pp. Partly-color line drawings. Fine/near fine. Superb and tight first edition of this binder's boards manufacturer's anniversary keepsake volume, illustrated sketches of 17 mostly-American authors, in order: Dickens, Cooper, Bryant, Emerson, Hawthorne, Longfellow, Poe, Holmes, Thoreau, Melville, Whitman, Twain, Sandburg, Frost, O'Neill, Hemingway and Steinbeck. Charmingly illustrated, with laid-in printed slip from company president transmitting same. .

Keywords: Literary Biography


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