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The Americanization of Edward Bok: The Autobiography of A Dutch Boy Fifty Years After [inscribed]

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The Americanization of Edward Bok: The Autobiography of A Dutch Boy Fifty Years After [inscribed]

by Bok, Edward;

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New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1921. Reprinted. Hardcover. Octavo; pp 461; Good; navy spine with gilt text; no dust jacket; original publisher's cloth shows modest soiling wear to exterior; rubbed edges; lightly bumped fore corners; slightly cocked spine; spine shows some sun fading; text block shows slight age toning to exterior edges; deckled fore edge; interior lightly toned; previous owner's bookplate to front pastedown; frontispiece with tissue guard; illustrated; inscribed by author to ffep;. 1324611. FP New Rockville Stock.

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The Americanization of Edward Bok is an autobiography, told in the third person, that shares the life of a little Dutch boy unceremoniously set down in America unable to make himself understood or even to know what persons were saying; his education extremely limited, practically negligible; and yet, by some curious decree of fate, he was destined to write, for a period of years, to the largest body of readers ever addressed by an American editor - the circulation of the magazine he edited running into figures previously unheard of in periodical literature. He made no pretense to style or even to composition: his grammar was faulty, as it was natural it should be, in a language not his own. His roots never went deep, for the intellectual soil had not been favorable to their growth; - yet, it must be confessed, he achieved.But how all this came about, how such a boy, with every disadvantage to overcome, was able, apparently, to "make good" - this possesses an interest and for some, perhaps, a value which, after all, is the only reason for any book.

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Title
The Americanization of Edward Bok: The Autobiography of A Dutch Boy Fifty Years After [inscribed]
Author
Bok, Edward;
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Hardcover
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Reprinted
Publisher
Charles Scribner's Sons
Place of Publication
New York
Date Published
1921

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