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This book is a collection of BBC Radio Broadcasts and Essays by a renowned British Essayist & Novelist that were done to boost morale during the Second World War (WWII). Max Beerbohm's "Mainly on the Air". This is the First American Edition, published in 1947 by Alfred Knopf FROM THE DUST-JACKET : "Max Beerbohm was born in London on August 24, 1872. He was educated at the Charterhouse and Merton College, Oxford, and before leaving the university was already known as an essayist, wit, and gifted cartoonist. After graduating from Oxford, he illuminated the London literary scene as one of the brilliant lights of the 'Yellow Book'. Following a visit to the United States in 1898, he succeeded George Bernard Shaw as dramatic critic of the Saturday Review. In 1919 he married Florence Kahn, an American who was a well-known actress of the English stage, and settled in Italy. At the outbreak of the Second World War he returned to England, remaining there for the duration, and made over the BBC numerous broadcasts designed to strengthen British morale (six of which appear in this book). He was knighted in 1939." **************************************** BROADCASTS :: LONDON REVISITED (1935) / SPEED (1936) / A SMALL BOY SEEING GIANTS (1936) / MUSIC HALLS OF MY YOUTH (1942) / ADVERTISEMENTS (1942) / PLAYGOING (1945) / A NOTE ON THE EINSTEIN THEORY (1923) / FROM BLOOMBURY TO BAYSWATER (1940) / OLD CARTHUSIAN MEMORIES (1920) / THE TOP HAT (1940) / FENESTRALIA (1944) / T. FENNING DODWORTH (1922) *************************************** TITLE : Mainly on the Air / AUTHOR : Sir Max Beerbohm (1872 - 1956) / DATE : 1947 / PLACE : New York / IMPRINT : Alfred A. Knopf / EDITION : First American Edition / PHYSICAL DETAILS : Trade hardcover; 142 pages; approximately 4 7/8" x 7 1/4" (12vo); dark blue cloth with title, etc. in gold on spine; front board has title in blind within an oval design, also in blind; pictorial dust-jacket . light olive-green dust-jacket has title on front panel within an ornate border, all in black - and on the rear panel a caricature of Beerbohm by Bohun Lynch, along with a short biographical sketch of Beerbohm ************************************************* CONDITION - BOOK : VERY GOOD - - JACKET : VERY GOOD - This previously owned book remains a solid, clean specimen with the following imperfections noted :: BOARDS : Near negligible surface rub -- edges have a some wear, including a spot of abrasion to top front edge --- else clean and presentable / BINDING : Solid . pages open easily / END PAPERS : The front free end-paper has been neatly replaced --- else toned but clean. (The replaced ffep seems to me hardly egregious, was neatly done, and seems certainly better than no leaf at all.) / INTERIOR : Clean and presentable with but the mildest signs of use. / DUST-JACKET : Mild wear to edges, including a few small nicks - there is a small tear to bottom of rear panel -- mild surface rub a bit of small spotting and light smudging -- spine panel darkened -- front flap price-clipped --- else presentable . looks decent under protective clear mylar cover. Seller Inventory # 1332
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