Edgar Allan
by Neufeld, John
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/Good+
- Seller
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Wellfleet, Massachusetts, United States
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About This Item
New York: S.G. Phillips, 1968. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. First Edition. Jacket is stained on interior with minor edgewear - exterior looks nice. Book is square and tight, pages are clean. Boards have some wear on edges. 95 pgs..
Synopsis
"I always wanted to be a writer. I started writing early, and badly, sending off short stories to national magazines when I was ten or eleven. They were all returned. "But I kept at it. All through high school and college. Everything I sent out came back. Thanks but no thanks. "I moved to New York and worked in a publishing house. I kept writing. In fact, I was fired from my first job for spending more time on my own projects than on the publishing house's. "I wrote on. "In 1968, an editor from a small California publishing house and I had lunch. She gave me an outline for a story she thought I could write well. I knew immediately I had to try. "But what I wanted to do was write a short book, full of emotion and detail and excitement, for readers of all ages. I didn't know that Edgar Allan would be regarded as a children's book. "It was. "And when it was, everything fell into place. The minute Edgar Allan was launched successfully, I sat down to write Lisa, Bright And Dark . It, too, was a success so there was no turning back. Although I do write books for adults, the ideas that stimulate me always seem to come to me in the form of a story for young readers. I get ideas from everywhere: from the newspapers, from radio, from lunches and talks I have with friends. "Right now, if I never get another idea, I have more story lines to work on than my lifetime probably permits." Both Edgar Allan and Lisa, Bright And Dark , were selected as among the Best Books of the Year by the New York Times. Lisa, Bright And Dark was filmed for television, and aired as a Hallmark Hall of Fame on NBC-TV. Mr. Neufeld's other books have as recently as this spring (2000) been cited as among the best of last year's Young Adult titles by the New York Public Library and YASLA.
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- Bookseller
- Wellfleet Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 002449
- Title
- Edgar Allan
- Author
- Neufeld, John
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Good+
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- S.G. Phillips
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1968
- Bookseller catalogs
- Fiction - General;
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WE BUY BOOKS - Single Volume or Entire Collection. Please email info@wellfleetbooks.com Wellfleet Books specializes in Cape Cod Books, Modern First Editions and Children\\\'s Books.
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