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ONWARD & UPWARD IN THE GARDEN
by White, Katharine S. (Edited and with an Introduction by E.B. White)
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very Good+
- Seller
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Korumburra, Victoria, Australia
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About This Item
London: The Folio Society, 2008. xix, 300pp. Colour frontis, 3 x 4 page unpaginated colour plate sections, plus b/white illustrations intext. Book clean, square. Spine firm, white title and gilt decoration there-on, light crease to head. Title and gilt decorated illustration to front panel of undamaged green boards. One tiny spot (and two to rear pastedown), else leaves clean, crisp and unmarked. No slipcase. "Katharine White began working at The New Yorker in 1925, the year of its founding, and was an editor there for thirty-four years, shaping the careers of such writers as John O'Hara, Vladimir Nabokov, and Jean Stafford. Throughout and beyond those years she was also a gardener. In 1958, when her job as editor was coming to a close, White wrote the first of a series of fourteen garden pieces that appeared in The New Yorker over the next twelve years. The poet Marianne Moore originally persuaded White that these pieces would make a fine book, but it wasn't until after her death in 1977 that her husband, E. B. White, assembled them into this now classic collection . . . " Contents include: Introduction. 14 chapters. Afterword by Jamaica Kincaid. Seedsmen and Nurserymen. Books in Print. Index. Book weight approx. 690g. . Hardcover. Very Good+. 8vo - (approx. 22.5cm x 16cm).
Synopsis
Katharine S. White (1896-1977) was fiction editor at The New Yorker from 1925 to 1959. She and her husband, E. B. White, lived in New York City and North Brooklin, Maine.
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- Bookseller
- Diversity Books, IOBA
(AU)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 014986
- Title
- ONWARD & UPWARD IN THE GARDEN
- Author
- White, Katharine S. (Edited and with an Introduction by E.B. White)
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good+
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- The Folio Society
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 2008
- Size
- 8vo - (approx. 22.5cm x 16cm)
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- Gardening, Garden Writing, Catalogs, Essays, Katharine White, The New Yorker
- Bookseller catalogs
- Gardening;
Terms of Sale
Diversity Books, IOBA
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Diversity Books, IOBA
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Korumburra, Victoria
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