PERSONS AND PLACES : Vol. I, The Background of My Life
by George Santayana
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Collectible - Very Good/No Jacket
- Seller
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Berkeley, California, United States
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About This Item
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1944. First Edition, First Thus . Hardcover. Collectible - Very Good/No Jacket. Text/As New. Gilt embossed, green linen boards/VG w/light edge & surface wear w/trace discoloration to upper text block.. DJ/None. Frontispiece: Photo portrait of author (Harvard Univ, 1886 class photograph). LAID-IN: Book-of-the-Month Club review by Christopher Morley. Vol. I of III; memoir & autobiography of Spanish-born philosopher, essayist, poet & novelist George Santayana (1863 - 1952). 262 pgs in 16 chapters, covering his student days at Boston Latin, Harvard college (founder & president of the Philosophical Club, an editor & cartoonist for The Harvard Lampoon & co-founder of The Harvard Monthly), the teaching years at Harvard and return to Spain. Specious, seductive, indispensable sketch of late 19th Century intellectual Americans, especially of the Boston Brahmins & Harvard Dons. Wonderful complement to studies of Henry Adams (whom he met) and Henry James..
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- Seller
- 100 POCKETS (US)
- Seller's Inventory #
- 200508
- Title
- PERSONS AND PLACES : Vol. I, The Background of My Life
- Author
- George Santayana
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Collectible - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition, First Thus
- Publisher
- Charles Scribner's Sons
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1944
- Keywords
- George Santayana; Harvard; Boston Brahmins; Henry Adams; Sturgis; 'The Last Puritan'; William James
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