First printing. Good to Very Good in a very good dust jacket. A tight, clean copy, with prior owner's inscription on front end paper. Some foxing. Price clipped.

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Title: The Open Door: When Writers First Learned to Read
Publisher: David R Godine
Publication Date: 1989
Language: English
ISBN 10: 0879238097
ISBN 13: 9780879238094
Binding: Hardcover
Edition: 1st Edition
Condition: Good
Dust Jacket Condition: Good

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Twenty-nine writers, including Dickens, Kipling, Mencken, Welty, and Dillard, recount their first memories of reading.

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Steven Gilbar worked as a senior managing editor at a law book publishing firm before dedicating himself to books for books’ sake. He is co-author of Not Forgotten: American Writers Remember the Lives of Literary Mentors, Friends & Rivals.

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