The Americanization of Edward Bok
by Bok, Edward
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- Hardcover
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About This Item
Chicago: The Lakeside Press, 2000. Hardcover. As New. Hardcover in brown cloth. Still in shrinkwrap.
Synopsis
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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- Pages Past Used and Rare Books
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 039984
- Title
- The Americanization of Edward Bok
- Author
- Bok, Edward
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- New As New
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- The Lakeside Press
- Place of Publication
- Chicago
- Date Published
- 2000
- Keywords
- 2000; Edward Bok; Autobiography; Ladies Home journal
- Bookseller catalogs
- Americana;
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Pages Past Used and Rare Books
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Greensboro, North Carolina
About Pages Past Used and Rare Books
Pages Past is a small used & rare bookshop located a few blocks from the University of North Carolina at Greensboro. Since 1996 we have been serving the Triad community as well as customers from around the world. We have around 15-20,000 volumes in our shop. We specialize in North Carolina, Virginia, Civil War, Old Leather, Christianity, Eastern and Western Philosophies, and the simply unusual. We very likely have the oldest books in Greensboro; we keep a nice selection of antiquarian volumes and scholarly books.
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