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COLLECTIBLE: EXQUISITE: INDISPENSABLE to ANY LOVER of LITERATURE & The TRADITIONS of AMERICAN PUBLISHING: VERY GOOD: Stated First Edition (October 1965) First Printing: No Jacket , EXQUISITE VERY GOOD cover w/ library-durable black fabric wrapping spine & extending 1.28" over front & back panels covered in silk-finish emerald linen w/ EXCELLENT edges & corners & w/ titles-&-AK-design-motifs ELEGANTLY stamped in gilt & emerald-green on spine & w/ Borzoi hound boldly gilt-stamped over gilt "50 Years / 1915-1965 " & green-stamped wreath on front panel, EXCELLENT sewn binding w/ tight signatures & faded-yellow-green-checked linen bands at spine-caps, VERY GOOD unmarked but time-blemished text-block exterior w/ smooth-cut top & bottom edges (w/ top edge stained in faded ocher-yellow) & w/ cut-page-style "deckle" side-edging, IMPECCABLE gorgeously-patterned "AK-Borzoi- hound-patterned" card-stock end-papers, PRISTINE interior SUPERBLY printed in Linotype-Janson on EXCELLENT archival paper showing minor-moderate degree of "aging" w/ faint water-markings on the outside side edges of a few pages--OVERALL for the book-lover this is a volume worthy to keep and to treasure. * 6.50" x 9.50" x 2.0", 1.42 kg, xxxvi+1092 (1128) pp * ABOUT THE BOOK: This volume SPLENDIDLY Commemorates 50 years in the life of THE Great American Publishing Institution that is Alfred A. Knopf. Within its pages--drawn from the more than 5,000 books published in AK's first 50 years--are gathered more than a half-million words: 51 writers of prose & verse (representing the United States, Russia, France, Germany, England, Spain, Ireland & China), 6 Nobel Prize laureates, 7 complete novels & novellas, 12 short stories (including several very long ones), a complete play, 23 shorter pieces of non-fiction of various kinds, & a rich selection of poetry. Surveying this retrospective collection one can discern towering peaks of literary achievement, classic, enduring work by such titans as Camus, Sartre, Mann, D.H. Lawrence, Gide, Eliot, Pound, Spengler, Conrad, Stevens, by such masters as Bunin, Cather, Beerbohm, E.M. Forster, W.H. Hudson, Katherine Mansfield, Robert Graves, Clarence Day, H.L. Mencken, Romains, Unamuno, Belloc, A.E. Houseman, Elinor Wylie, & yes, by such brilliant representatives from more recent years as Roald Dahl, Alan Sillitoe, John Updike, John Hersey, & William Snodgrass, &, yes, by an extraordinary virtuoso only more recently included within the domain of high literature, Raymond Chandler. This vast & varied library--for it is a library rather than a mere anthology--is supplemented by a lengthy & refreshingly personal introduction plus informal commentaries by the editor, the inimitable Clifton Fadiman who selected the contents entirely w/o consultation w/ the publisher or his associates. "Fifty Years" offers a striking view of a broad literary terrain, concentrating on those first order names which Alfred & Blanche Knopf so wisely & so fortunately sponsored over a half-century of lively & distinguished publishing. * ABOUT THE EDITOR: CLIFTON FADIMAN, educated in New York City schools & at Columbia University, enjoyed a long & distinguished career in American letters, first as book editor at the New Yorker & then as editor & editor-in-chief at Simon & Schuster. He edited many anthologies & authored innumerable books & articles & essays, all of which celebrated humanity & the greatness of the written word. * SHIPPING: MNEMOSYNE carefully wraps, labels & custom-packages this fine book for FREE domestic shipment via USPS MEDIA MAIL (or USPS PRIORITY MAIL for A below-cost additional fee of $16.00) & via USPS FIRST CLASS INTERNATIONAL AIRMAIL to all international destinations at our posted rates.
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