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New York: Random House, 1953. First Edition, First Printing. Octavo (8 1/4 x 5 1/2 inches; 208 x 138 mm), 332, [2] pages, in black cloth, titles to spine, in an unclipped dust jacket (hard cover). Autobiography of newspaper editor James Wechsler (1915-1983), who ran the New York Post when it was a leading voice of liberal anticommunism.… Read more about this item

Garden City, New York : Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1949. First American Edition, 1st Printing. Small Quarto (9 1/2 x 6 1/2 inches; 245 x 165 mm), xvi, 367, [1] pages, in red buckram, top edge gilt, titles to spine in black and gilt, in an acetate dust jacket and black slipcase. SIGNED by Somerset Maugham on the limitation… Read more about this item

Washington, D.C.: National Geographic Directions, 2003. First Edition. SIGNED by John Edgar Wideman on the title page. A travel memoir by the acclaimed author. Signed copies are scarce in the market. PHYSICAL DETAILS: Octavo (8 1/4 x 5 1/2 inches; 210 x 140 mm), xxx, 167 pages, black and green boards, in an unclipped dust jacket. CONDITION: Fine in a Fine dust jacket.

New York: Pantheon Books, 1994. First Edition, First Printing. SIGNED by John Edgar Wideman on the title page. "As a memoir it is superb," the reviewer Mel Watkins wrote in The New York Times on November 13, 1994. "The author brings all of the considerable narrative skills (demonstrated in the novels of his Homewood trilogy and in his short fiction) into… Read more about this item

Octavo (8 3/4 x 6 inches; 222 x 150 mm),xi, [1], 276 pages, quarter cloth over boards, titles to spine, in a price-clipped, illustrated dust jacket (hard cover). A combination of 20th-century literary history and memoir by the editor and critic Malcolm Cowley (1898-1989). CONDITION: Minor soiling on the top edge and front free end paper. Remainder mark on the top edge.… Read more about this item