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

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.