Author: Clifton Fadiman; Warren Chappell; Alfred A. Knopf, Inc.,; Hadden Craftsmen, Inc,; S.D. Warren Company,; Photogravure and Color Company
Title: Fifty Years : Being a Retrospective Collection of Novels, Novellas, Tales, Drama, Poetry, and Reportage and Essays (Whether Literary, Musical, Contemplative, Historical, Biographical, Argumentative, or Gastronomical) All Drawn from Volumes Issued During the Last Half-Century by Alfred and Blanche Knopf over This Sign and Device [the Borzoi]
Description: New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 1965. 8vo. 1088 pp. Hard cover. Very Good. Illustrated green cloth covered boards with black quarter cloth spine. Minor shelf wear. Bump on top right corner. B&W plates. Deckled pages. Contents: The Gentleman from San Francisco / Ivan Bunin -- The Stranger / Albert Camus -- A Lost lady / Willa Cather -- Farewell, my lovely / Raymond Chandler -- The Immoralist / Andre Gide -- Death in Venice / Thomas Mann -- Mario and the magician / Thomas Mann -- Enoch Soames / Max Beerbohm -- The Demon lover / Elizabeth Bowen -- Two friends / Willa Cather -- Dusky Ruth / A.E. Coppard -- The Landlady / Roald Dahl -- Seaton's aunt / Walter de la Mare -- The Celestial omnibus / E.M. Forster -- El Ombu / W.H. Hudson -- The Man who loved islands / D.H. Lawrence -- The Fly / Katherine Mansfield -- The Loneliness of the long-distance runner / Alan Sillitoe -- Snowing in Greenwich Village / John Updike -- No exit / Jean-Paul Sartre. From the collection of the late Frederick Ruffner, Jr. founder of Gale Research, Detroit. .

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