Vogue's First Reader

Crowninshield, Frank (introduction by)

Published by Julian Messner, Incorporated, New York, 1942

About this Item

This book is in Very Good+ to Near Fine - condition and has a Very Good+ dust jacket. The book and its contents are in clean, bright condition. The text pages are clean and bright. One page was misfolded and shows some creasing (page 547 / 548). There is a previous owner's inked name, and date (and sorority name) on the front pastedown page (neatly). The dust jacket has several nicks, beginning edge tears and edge wear / rubbing along with some sunning, especially to the spine. This book contains numerous writings from the pages of Vogue magazine: all of the works included in this volume have never been printed in any other anthology, making this a First Hardback Edition for a number of the works. Included are A Prologue to America by Thomas Wolfe, The Clark's Fork Valley, Wyoming by Ernest Hemingway (on fishing), Brooklyn is My Neighborhood by Carson McCullers, The Scars of London by Cecil Beaton, Five Pretty Little Fables by William Saroyan, Fanny - You Fool! by Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings, I Saw the Moscow Blitz by Margaret Bourke-White, These Grapes need Sugar by Rex Stout, and many more. Seller Inventory # A35411

Bibliographic Details

Title: Vogue's First Reader

Publisher: Julian Messner, Incorporated, New York

Publication Date: 1942

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good+

Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good+

Edition: 1st Edition; 1st Printing.