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A Company of Readers: Uncollected Writings of W.H. Auden, Jaques Barzun, and Lionel Trilling, From the Readers' Subscription and Mid-Century Book Clubs
by Krystal, Arthur [editor]
- Used
- near fine
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Near Fine/Near Fine
- Seller
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Whitby, Ontario, Canada
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About This Item
New York: The Free Press, 2001. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. 8vo. Foreward by Jaques Barzun. Full number line. Quarter grey cloth with grey paper boards. xxx, 289 p.p. Minor bumping to flaps and scuff to rear to dust jacket, else in fine condition overall. In 1951, Jaques Barzun, W.H. Auden, and Lionel Trilling joined together to form the editorial board of the Readers' Subscription Book Club. Never before or since have three such eminent intellectuals collaborated to bring books to the attention of the general public. Now, A Company of Readers tells the story of this extraordinary partnership and presents for the first time a selection of essays from the publications of the Readers' Subscription Book Club and its successor, the Mid-Century Book Society.
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- Seller
- Minotavros Books
(CA)
- Seller's Inventory #
- 003261
- Title
- A Company of Readers: Uncollected Writings of W.H. Auden, Jaques Barzun, and Lionel Trilling, From the Readers' Subscription and Mid-Century Book Clubs
- Author
- Krystal, Arthur [editor]
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Near Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Near Fine
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Publisher
- The Free Press
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 2001
- Keywords
- Arthur Krystal, Jaques Barzun, W.H. Auden, Lionel Trilling. Authors, Writers, Literature, Novelists, Novels, Biography, T.S. Eliot, Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Colette, Belles Lettres, the Wind in the Willows, Lord Of The Flies, Fine Arts, Poetry, Essays, Re
- Bookseller catalogs
- Literary Criticism; Essays;
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