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New York: The Vanguard Press, 1945. Hardcover, cloth in non price-clipped dust-jacket. A collection of 19 essays, many of which appeared earlier in such magazines as The Atlantic Monthly, The New Republic, The Saturday Review of Literature and The Nation, mainly devoted to literary topics. Among the author's profiled are Twain, Dostoievsky, Joyce, Chekov, and Hemingway. No name, no book-plate, etc. A clean, very good+ copy in worn and chipped dust-jacket.. Reprint. Cloth. Very Good+/Fair. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.
The League of Frightened Philistines and Other Papers by Farrell, James T. (James Thomas) - 1945
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NY: Vanguard Press, 1945. First Edition, First Printing; blue c; 194 clean, unmarked pages; ownr's name A collection of 19 essays, many of which appeared earlier in such magazines as The Atlantic Monthly, The New Republic, The Saturday Review of Literature and The Nation, mainly devoted to literary topics. Among the author's profiled are Twain, Dostoievsky, Joyce, Chekov, and Hemingway. 1st. Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. 8 vo.
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- Date Published 1945
- Keywords Theodore Dreiser, Ernest Hemingway, Ring Lardner, Mark Twain, Anton Chekhov, Lewis Mumford, Mortimer J. Adler, James Joyce
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NY: The Vanguard Press, 1945 Book. Very Good. Hardcover. Contains critical articles on the literary works of James Joyce, Anton Chekhov, Ernest Hemingway, Mark Twain, Dostoieveky, Lewis Mumford, Mortimer Adler, etc. Dust jacket has light edgewear and soils..
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New York: The Vanguard Press, 1937. Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7?" - 9?" tall. Type: Hardback The Vanguard Press, NY, 1937 Hardcover Book in Very Good Condition without Dust Jacket. Gray cloth over boards with red initial on front and red titles to spine, very clean and unmarked, slight rubbing tp edges and corners, particularly nice condition. Fore-edge and lower edge of text block rough cut, publisher's red tint to top edge. Former owner name on paste-down. Pages lightly toned, quite clean, no marks of any kind, no creases. The papers and essays in this book relate to questions of interest to the author over the years-What is the role consciousness in society? What is the function of literature in society? What is the influence of society on literature? What is the role of the writer in society? In some of the essays the author sets down impressions of books he has read, liked, been influenced by, studies of specific books, relating to the questions. An example of…
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Vanguard, 1945. Hardcover. Good. 1945. 210 pages. No dust jacket. Grey cloth. Inscription to front endpaper. Pages are lightly tanned and thumbed at the edges, with light foxing. Binding has remained firm. Boards are a little rub worn, slight shelf wear to corners, spine and edges. Corners are a little bumped. Spine ends are mildly crushed. Tanning to spine and edges.
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NY: Vanguard Press. Very Good. 1945. First Edition (?) thus. HARDCOVER. 5x8". VERY GOOD CONDITION, CLEAN, SOLID, BRIGHT; RED SPINE TITLES WITH LARGE COMBINED LETTERS J&F on front cover in red ink...all on grey cloth hard covers.. ; 211ps pages; LITERARY CRITICISM...SHORT ESSAYS ON LIFE & WORKS BY JAMES JOYCE, ANTON CHEKHOV, ERNEST HEMINGWAY, MARK TWAIN, DOSTOIEVEKY, LEWIS MUMFORD, MORTIMER ADLER, .
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New York: The Vanguard Press, 1945. Hardcover. xiv, 210p., first edition, very good condition in a heavily chipped dj.
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New York: Vanguard Press. Good with no dust jacket. 1945. Hardcover.
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New York: Vanguard Press, 1945. Hardcover. Very Good. First edition. Owner's bookplate on front pastedown, page 208 roughly opened, spine tanned, very good lacking the dustwrapper.
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London: Routledge, 1947. Hardcover. Fine/Very Good. First English edition. Spine lettering a bit dimmed, else fine in a very good dustwrapper with edge tears and chips. A wartime book of essays, with a tipped-in slip noting that due to production delays the book was not published until 1948.
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