Present Tense : First Person Singular; The Arts of Living; Portrait of a World (3 Volume boxed set)

New York: Harcourt, Brace, 1941. Presumed first edition. Boxed set of 3 volumes. 8vo. Cloth. A wartime collection of writings by the literary elite, celebrating the best of humanity -- loyalty, charity, courage, honor, and love. Includes poetry, essays, and fiction by George Santayana, E.B. White, William Saroyan, Aldous Huxley, Saki, Eva Curie, Edna St. Vincent Millay, A. E. Housman, Robert Front, Dorothy Parker, Thomas Hardy, Thornton Wilder, Pearl Buck, W. B. Yeats, Robinson Jeffers, Walter De La Mare, W. E. B. Du Bois, Rockwell Kent, James Thurber, Ogden Nash, Thomas Wolfe, Carl Sandburg, Amy Lowell, John Steinbeck, Anne Morrow Lindbergh, and dozens of others. Owner's names in volumes. Minor edgewear. Boxed set in edgeworn slipcase. Near fine in very good slipcase.