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Comments and Notes: First Edition - Good+ hardcover/Good dust jacket - NY: Literary Guild of America Inc., 1937 - 8vo/ 8.5" tall - green cloth, with blindstamped decoration on front , gilt & black title label on spine - green tinted top edge - faint dampstain along lower edge of cover & interior dust jacket, glue shadow to pastedowns, small bookseller stamp on front endpaper, otherwise interior & edges clean, unmarked - dust jacket corners clipped, closed edge tears, frayed at top & bottom of backstrip - xix + 442pp. Education & self-education of a writer & literary editor. Burton Rascoe (1892-1957). Enc. Brit: The U.S. critic, editor, and journalist Burton Rascoe had a rich and varied literary life. His best-known book, Titans of Literature, was a widely acclaimed appraisal of 30 major writers. © Copyright Periplus Line LLC 2000 | Updated: September 28, 2008 |
