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THE AMERICANIZATION OF EDWARD BOK -- THE AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF A DUTCH BOY FIFTY YEARS AFTER
by BOK, EDWARD
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About This Item
USA: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1922. Hardcover. Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7. Charles Scribner's Sons, 1922. Hardcover Book in Good Condition, without Jacket. 1920 Pulitzer Prize Winner. An autobiography of Edward Bok, (1863-1930) Dutch writer, editor, essayist, autobiographer and humanitarian. Bok was the editor at "The Ladies Home Journal" which led to his success and influence. "As editor, Bok is considered to have practically revolutionized the American home. Clean, dark-red boards with minimal wear to extremities. Tight, solid book. Backstrap loose. Previous giver inscription on loose endpaper. All edges rough cut. Frontispiece a portrait of Edward W. Bok, with tissue overlay. Leaf with frontispiece is loose from binding. Inne hinge cracked. . Dominican Lending Library stamps and numbers on the title page and the rear paste-down. Numbers on spine. Private library. Rough cut. Internals clean, unmarked, no tears, slightly toned, more so near edges. 461 pages. 5.5 x 8.25 inches. 1922, Charles Scribner's Sons, USA
Synopsis
The Americanization of Edward Bok is an autobiography, told in the third person, that shares the life of a little Dutch boy unceremoniously set down in America unable to make himself understood or even to know what persons were saying; his education extremely limited, practically negligible; and yet, by some curious decree of fate, he was destined to write, for a period of years, to the largest body of readers ever addressed by an American editor - the circulation of the magazine he edited running into figures previously unheard of in periodical literature. He made no pretense to style or even to composition: his grammar was faulty, as it was natural it should be, in a language not his own. His roots never went deep, for the intellectual soil had not been favorable to their growth; - yet, it must be confessed, he achieved.But how all this came about, how such a boy, with every disadvantage to overcome, was able, apparently, to "make good" - this possesses an interest and for some, perhaps, a value which, after all, is the only reason for any book.
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- 005151
- Title
- THE AMERICANIZATION OF EDWARD BOK -- THE AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF A DUTCH BOY FIFTY YEARS AFTER
- Author
- BOK, EDWARD
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- Charles Scribner's Sons
- Place of Publication
- USA
- Date Published
- 1922
- Size
- 8vo - over 7
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- BOK, EDWARD, DUTCH BORN AMERICAN EDITOR AND PUBLICIST, 1863-1930
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