Woolcotts Second Reader by Woolcott Alexander (3 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dust Jacket. First Edition; First Printing. First Edition, First Printing (No additional printings stated). Published November, 1937. Lacking Dustjacket. Very Good with moderate wear to covers and no marks to text. Some toning to page edges and endpapers, a tough of darkening to spine. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 1056 pages.

Condition: Good. First edition copy. . Acceptable dust jacket. In protective mylar cover. (anthology, biography, modernism).

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good condition. No jacket. First Edition, Number 20 of 50 copies. New York: The Viking Press, 1937. Lacks spine label else Very Good condition. Clean, square, tight, unmarked copy. Number 20 of 50 copies, "Especially prepared for the use of those about whom (at the moment of going to press) the editor is enthusiastic." BOSWELL AND THE GIRL FROM BOTANY BAY, by F. A. Pottle was first published as a separate book [The Viking Press, 1937] and limited to 500 copies. A less expensive alternative is this anthology, where it is included with the addition of new commentary (4 pages) by Alexander Woollcott. This printing of BOSWELL AND THE GIRL FROM BOTANY BAY has the complete text of the original, except for Pottle's preface, end notes, and three illustrations. Also in this anthology [Woolcott's Second Reader] are the following: PREFACE TO "ALL MEN ARE BROTHERS" by Shih Nai-an; THE LADY'S MAID'S BELL by Edith Wharton; JOE by Gustav Eckstein; A CHRISTMAS GARLAND by Max Beerbohm; THE PORTRAIT OF M. M. by D. H. Lawrence; TWO FRIENDS by Willa Cather; CAKES AND ALE, OR, THE SKELETON IN THE CUPBOARD by W. S. Maugham; THE GOLDEN AGE by Kenneth Grahame. Original green cloth. First Edition, Number 20 of 50 copies. Hardcover. Very Good condition/No jacket. 8vo. 558pp.