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Let Me Finish [Signed, inscribed]
by Angell, Roger
- Used
- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- VG/VG
- Seller
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Andes, New York, United States
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About This Item
Orlando / New York: Harcourt, 2006. First. Hardcover. VG/VG. First printing of the First Edition, blue boards lightly rubbed, Very Good condition in a VG dustjacket which has a bit of water stain to base of spine; light crease to jacket flap. 302 pages. Page edges have an occasional darkening due to the boo having survived the 2019 fire at the Saint Mark's Place flat of Peter Schjeldahl, Angell's friend and colleague at the New Yorker. This copy was inscribed to Schjeldahl and his wife Brooke Alderson, signed with "love, Roger" and dated 4/28/06. Wonderful association copy of Angell's penultimate collection.
Synopsis
Here, at home inside a Jane Austen novel, I passed my college weekends, carving Sunday roasts and getting the station wagon serviced, explaining the double finesse in bridge, lacing up ice skates, sharing by radio the fall of Paris and the night bombings of London . . . having fallen not just in love but into a family. -from LET ME FINISH Roger Angell has developed a broad and devoted following through his writings in the New Yorker and as the leading baseball writer of our time. Turning to more personal matters, he has produced a fresh form of auto-biography in this unsentimental look at his early days as a boy growing up in Prohibition-era New York with a remarkable father; a mother, Katherine White, who was a founding editor of the New Yorker; and a famous stepfather, the writer E. B. White. Intimate, funny, and moving portraits form the book's centerpiece as Angell remembers his eccentric relatives, his childhood love of baseball in the time of Ruth and Gehrig and DiMaggio, and his vivid colleagues during his long career as a New Yorker writer and editor. Infused with both pleasure and sadness, Angell's disarming memoir also evokes a sensuous attachment to life's better moments.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Diamond Hollow Books
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 2453
- Title
- Let Me Finish [Signed, inscribed]
- Author
- Angell, Roger
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - VG
- Jacket Condition
- VG
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First
- Publisher
- Harcourt
- Place of Publication
- Orlando / New York
- Date Published
- 2006
Terms of Sale
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- First Edition
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- Edges
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- Association Copy
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- Jacket
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- Inscribed
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