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WHAT IS A BOOK? Thoughts about writing : 20 famous authors talk intimately and informally on the fascinating intricacies of the writing art


  • WHAT IS A BOOK? Thoughts about writing : 20 famous authors talk intimately and informally on the fascinating intricacies of the writing art
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Condition Fair
Edition 1st Edition
Jacket Condition Poor
Binding Hardcover - 288 pages
Published George Allen & Unwin,  London 1936
Our Ref # 001794

Description

Exceptionally scarce collection of essays on the art of writing. Authors featured: Frances Lester Warner; Ellen Glasgow; Rafael Sabatini; Gertrude Atherton; Havelock Ellis; Mary Agnes HAmilton; Jeanette Eaton; Harold Nicolson; Valentine Williams; Phyllis Bottome; George Fort Milton; Edward J O'Brien; Frances Frost; Archibald Macleish; Herbert Agar; Margaret Ayer Barnes; Esther Forbes; E Arnot Robertson; James Norman Hall; John Livingston Lowes. Foxing to block and occasionally heavily to pages. Green cloth a little dulled to edges with bright gilt titling to spine. Repaired d/j, unclipped but with some loss.
£50.00

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