Vogue's First Reader
Frank Crowninshield & Various Authors
Sold by The Librarian's Books, Cranford, NJ, U.S.A.
AbeBooks Seller since 24 September 2007
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Add to basketSold by The Librarian's Books, Cranford, NJ, U.S.A.
AbeBooks Seller since 24 September 2007
Condition: Used - Good
Quantity: 1 available
Add to basketA Good copy in a Good dust wrapper of a title which is "A brilliant, entertaining, witty, moving and surprising Collection on almost everything of importance by almost everybody of importance." Dust wrapper is wrapped in a Mylar cover. Dust wrapper flaps have corners cut. Wear to dust wrapper with sunning on the spine and closed tears on either end of spine. Wear creasing on both sides of spine on the dust wrapper. Small chipping along top edge of dust wrapper. Tan boards have crisp black lettering and red squares. Sunning to pages. Previous seller's price in pencil on front flyleaf. From Dedication page:"All of these pieces were originally published in "Vogue." None of them has ever appeared in any other anthology." Contents:"Conversational kleptomania / G.B. Stein; Rather late for Christmas / Mary Ellen Chase; A prologue to America / Thomas Wolfe; My life is an open book / Clifton Fadiman; Home to Truro / Robert Nathan; The Clark's Fork Valley, Wyoming / Ernest Hemingway; The world within us / Andre Maurois; The weather of our soul / Irwin Edman; Four painters / Hendrik Willem Van Loon; You're on the air now / Ilka Chase; Souvenir / Ludwig Bemelmans; Brooklyn is my neighborhood / Carson McCullers; Happy Land / Katherine Anne Porter; The China you don't know / Helena Kuo; The old town / William Saroyan; The Mrs. Astor I remember / Frank Crowninshield; Churchill's favourite aunt / Oliver St. John Gogarty; Dinner with Turbot / Ford Madox Ford; Landscape, with figures / Frederic Prokosch; Nehru of India / Krishnalal Shridharani; The passing of the blops / M.F. Agha; I remember Christmas in Holland / Pierre Van Paassen; I remember Christmas in Austria / Leo Lania; I remember Christmas in France / Andre Maurois; I remember Christmas in Belgium / Robert Goffin; Humour, the bomb-proof kind / Virginia Cowles; "We have with us this evening ." / Frank Crowninshield; They're human after all / Katharine Brush; Chungking's broadway / Clare Boothe; Ten answers on Japan / Wilfrid Fleisher; This never got into my column / Major George Fielding Eliot; But where is Picasso? / Andre Gery; I love you, I love you, I love you / Ludwig Bemelmans; Something to remember you by / Sylvia Thompson; I like the circus / Paul Gallico; Embroidery / Ivy Low; The impossible glory / Rebecca West; The scars of London / Cecil Beaton; Gertrude Stein in France / Therese Bonney; Here we stand / Mary Ellen Chase; Five pretty little fables / William Saroyan; Chile can amore / Ludwig Bemelmans; Me and the French / Margaret Case Harriman; Murder in the music-room / Samuel Chotzinoff; Art and camouflage / Elliot Paul; Off stage noises / Aline Bernstein; "Sarah Bernhardt left them kneeling" / Laurette Taylor; File No.113 / Robert Simon; Do men like witty women? / Stephen Leacock; Clare Boothe, in a velvet glove / Allene Talmey; Now at last a house of my own / Katherine Anne Porter; Dry Tortugas / Archibald MacLeish; Red mountain / Irwin Edman; Southern exposure / Ralph McGill; "Waiter, bring me anything" / Edward R. Bosley, Junior; A wit with a whim of iron / Frank Crowninshield; "Fanny you fool!" / Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings; The lady is an engineer / Patricia Strauss; I saw the Moscow blitz / Margaret Bourke-White; The wine-diver / V. Shishkov; Now . twenty centuries later / James Hilton; The voice of Africa / Stuart Cloete; "There was no more sea" / Mary Ellen Chase; Bucks county auction / Josephine Herbst; Perennial immortality / Lee Simonson; No bed of roses / Isabel Paterson; Orson, the wizard, Welles / J.P McEvoy; Anything for a laugh / Max Eastman; Thanks to Casey Jones / John Mason Brown; Decor and the morons / Ilka Chase; American women . so pretty / Jules Romains; Fashions in painting / Frank Crowninshield; Renaissance profiles / Leo Lerman; No trouble at all / Ludwig Bemelmans; The infant gourmet / Sheila Hibben; etc." "Description:"xvi, 557 pages, 1 unnumbered page ; 27 cm.".
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