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New York & Evanston: Harper & Row. Very Good in Very Good- dust jacket. 1962. First Edition. Hardcover. DJ has a chipping, browning to rear edges, slight wear to the spine ends, and is price clipped. .
The Points of My Compass. Letters from the East, the West, the North, the South by White, E. B. (Elwyn Brooks), 1899-1985
by White, E. B. (Elwyn Brooks), 1899-1985
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The Points of My Compass. Letters from the East, the West, the North, the South
by White, E. B. (Elwyn Brooks), 1899-1985
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New York, Harper & Row [1962]. Hard Cover. [14], 240 p. 21.5 cm. 'The visitor to the attic knows the risk he runs when he lifts the lid from a box of old letters. Words out of the past have the power to detain. Hours later he may finds himself still crouched on the floor, savoring the pains and embarrassments of an early love, and with leg cramps to boot. The letters that make up this book, when I dug them out and began rereading them, detained me in much the way I have described...' Stock# 101,305x. Good+, dj clipped, chipped, small closed tears. American literature, essays, correspondence, autobiography, belles-lettres.
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The Points Of My Compass Letters From The East, The West, The North, The South
by White, E. B
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The Points Of My Compass Letters from the East, the West, the North, the South
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Harper & Row. Very Good in Good+ Dust Jacket. 1962. 1st Edition. Hardcover. A collection of eighteen essays, reports and reminiscences (all but one of which have previously appeared in The New Yorker as a "Letter from the East" or some other compass point). A first-rate collection of wise, funny and perceptive essays. DJ edgeworn, moderately chipped. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 240 pages; 23166Nss .
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The Points of My Compass Letters from the East, the West, the North, the South
by White, E. B
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NY: Harper & Row. Very Good in Poor dust jacket. 1962. Stated First Edition. First Printing. Hard Cover. Review copy with publisher's material laid in. Some of the remarks of the reviewer are written on the reverse of the review copy notification. Quarter bound in publisher's black cloth over brown boards, blind stamped rooster weather vane on front cover, gilt lettering on spine. . Head and heel of spine are rubbed, heel of spine is bumped as are lower tips, light offset to front endpapers from laid-in publisher's letter, else unmaked, tight, square and clean. Unclipped dust jacket has tiny chips at the tips and edges of the front cover, several longer tears and creasing at the edges of the rear panel, now protected by mylar. VERY GOOD/POOR. . 8vo 8" - 9" tall. xiv, 240 pp .
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