- First Edition
- Used
Seller: Michael Carroll Dooling, Middlebury, CT, U.S.A.Michael Carroll Dooling
AbeBooks seller since October 30, 2025
Condition: Used - Very good
£ 96.48
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PHILLIPS, H. I. (1887-1965). On White or Rye: Including Some of the Deeper Speculations of Elmer Twitchell. First Edition, 8vo, orange and black cloth, 274 pp., numerous text illustrations, lacks dust jacket, front end pages are darkened (possibly in part from binding glue bleeding through, and newspaper articles that had been inserted between those pages); obituary from New York Times inserted. INSCRIBED & SIGNED “To E. Robert Stevenson, supplementing recent medals, awards, citations and bad horse tips/Hi Phillips. April 30, 1941.” Stevenson was the Editor of the Waterbury American newspaper in Connecticut. The award and medal Phillips refers to is the Pulitzer Prize recently granted to the newspaper for a local corruption scandal. Also included are typed and signed three personal letters from Phillips to Stevenson. On a side note, Stevenson was also good friends with Sinclair Lewis dating back to their days at Yale (search "Harry Sinclair Lewis" in Abebooks for those papers).--- Phillips was at first a journalist and soon became a nationally known humor columnist He was a resident of Gulf Street, Milford, Connecticut for the last 25 years of his life and one of the letters invites Stevenson to visit him. …
Seller Inventory # ABE-1763563263573
Bibliographic details
- Title
- On White or Rye
- Author
- H.I. PHILLIPS
- Publication year
- 1941
- Condition
- Very good
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Item weight
- 8 ounces
- Seller catalogs
- Literature
Michael Carroll Dooling
Middlebury, CT, U.S.A.
AbeBooks seller since October 30, 2025
Shipping rates within U.S.A.
| Item | 7 to 10 business days | 3 to 6 business days |
|---|---|---|
| First item | £ 58.45 | £ 78.68 |
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Store description
Michael C. Dooling has bought & sold antiquarian books and manuscripts for over 50 years. His inventory are primarily from 17th to early 20th centuries and includes Americana, Literature, Science & Medicine, Historical Letters & Manuscripts, etc. He is also the author of five historical books and more than 100 articles published in historical journals, magazines and newspapers. In his writings Michael makes substantial use of manuscripts and archives. His works include Seaworthy Timber: The Life & Times of New England Sea Captain Aaron H. Wood; An Historical Account of Charles Island, Milford, Connecticut; and Clueless in New England:The Unsolved Disappearances of Paula Welden, Connie Smith and Katherine Hull.…
Specialty
History, Literature, Science, Medicine, etc. from the 17th to early 20th centuries.Seller's business information
Michael Carroll Dooling
CT, U.S.A.
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