Item #17-2539 Fifty years : being a retrospective collection of novels, novellas, tales, drama, poetry, and reportage and essays (whether literary, musical, contemplative, historical, biographical, argumentative, or gastronomical) all drawn from volumes issued during the last half-century by Alfred and Blanche Knopf over this sign and device [The borzoi]. Clifton Fadiman, Warren Chappell, Inc Alfred A. Knopf, Inc Hadden Craftsmen, S D. Warren Company, Photogravure and Color Company, Photogravure, Color Company.

Fifty years : being a retrospective collection of novels, novellas, tales, drama, poetry, and reportage and essays (whether literary, musical, contemplative, historical, biographical, argumentative, or gastronomical) all drawn from volumes issued during the last half-century by Alfred and Blanche Knopf over this sign and device [The borzoi].

New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 1965. 8vo. 1088 pp. Hard cover. Very Good. Illustrated green cloth covered boards with black quarter cloth spine. Minor shelf wear. Bump on top right corner. B&W plates. Deckled pages.

Contents:
The Gentleman from San Francisco / Ivan Bunin --
The Stranger / Albert Camus --
A Lost lady / Willa Cather --
Farewell, my lovely / Raymond Chandler --
The Immoralist / Andre Gide --
Death in Venice / Thomas Mann --
Mario and the magician / Thomas Mann --
Enoch Soames / Max Beerbohm --
The Demon lover / Elizabeth Bowen --
Two friends / Willa Cather --
Dusky Ruth / A.E. Coppard --
The Landlady / Roald Dahl --
Seaton's aunt / Walter de la Mare --
The Celestial omnibus / E.M. Forster --
El Ombu / W.H. Hudson --
The Man who loved islands / D.H. Lawrence --
The Fly / Katherine Mansfield --
The Loneliness of the long-distance runner / Alan Sillitoe --
Snowing in Greenwich Village / John Updike --
No exit / Jean-Paul Sartre.

From the collection of the late Frederick Ruffner, Jr., founder of Gale Research, Detroit. Item #17-2539

Price: $50.00

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