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Wilson, Edmund : The Bit Between My Teeth: A Literary Chronicle of 1950-1965

Farrar, Straus and Giroux, New Yorl, 1965

First Printing. Original publisher's mustard yellow cloth binding with gilt lettering on spine in a light blue dust wrapper. Dust wrapper protected in a paper-backed Brodart sleeve. Top edge stained a light plum purple. 5" x 7 3/4." 694 pages, complete. Pages and covers of book are virtually pristine and intact. Binding is tight. Dust wrapper is very clean and intact except for slight rubbing to spine and back panel. Dust wrapper not price-clipped. No remainder marks. A Fine book in a Near Fine dust wrapper. A collection of essays by American author and literary critic Edmund Wilson (1895-1972). From the front flap: "This book, together with its companion volumes, The Shores of Light and Classics and Commercials, provides a chronicle of the literary world in America and Europe from the early twenties to the present. The Bit Between My Teeth contains a selection of forty-four pieces written, with a few exceptions, between 1950 and 1965. In addition to essays and reviews, Mr. Wilson has included imaginary interviews, articles on bees and wasps and on mushrooms, notes on current cliches and solecisms, a long piece on 'My Fifty Years with Dictionaries and Grammars,' and memoirs of Max Beerbohm and John Peale Bishop. Among the other figures presented are Angus Wilson, Kingsley Amis, W. H. Auden, Boris Pasternak, Andre Malraux, Edward Gorey and Mario Praz. There are articles on Shaw in his last years, T. S. Eliot, James Branch Cabell, Logan Pearsall Smith, George Ade, Theodore Roosevelt, H. L. Mencken, Max Nomad, and there is an essay on the correspondence between O. W. Holmes and Harold J. Laski.". Book. Book Condition: Fine. Binding: Hardcover. Jacket: Near Fine

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