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Reviewing Ten Years, A Personal History of the Saturday Review of Literature
by William Benet
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- Paperback
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About This Item
Saturday Review, New York, 1933. First Edition. Softcover. Good Condition/No Dust Jacket. WILLIAM ROSE BENET. Reviewing Ten Years, A Personal History of the Saturday Review of Literature, New York: Saturday Review Co., 1933. Octavo, pp. 24, wraps, signed by Benet and colleagues at the magazine: Christopher Morley, Amy Loveman and Henry Canby, with the bookplate of Frederic Melcher, the great bookseller and patron of the book arts. Intro says Benet, an editor at the magazine, wrote this "informal memorandum ... with the rest of us looking over his shoulder." Condition of this book: Darkened and chipped at edges, tape ghost on front, spine starting to split. Size: Octavo (standard book size). Text body is clean, and free from previous owner annotation, underlining and highlighting. Binding is tight, covers and spine fully intact. All edges clean, neat and free of foxing. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category: Books on Books; United States; 1930s; Literature & Literary. Pictures of this item not already displayed here available upon request. Inventory No: 54736. .
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 54736
- Title
- Reviewing Ten Years, A Personal History of the Saturday Review of Literature
- Author
- William Benet
- Format/Binding
- Softcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good Condition
- Jacket Condition
- No Dust Jacket
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- Binding
- Paperback
- Publisher
- Saturday Review
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1933
- Keywords
- BZDB17 Books on Books; United States; 1930s; Literature & Literary. William Benet Reviewing Ten Years, A Personal History of the Saturday Review of Literature
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