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"Encore - A Continuing Anthology" was an entertaining periodical devoted to literature of all sorts - fiction and non-fiction, serious and not-so-serious, poetry and prose. It did not restrict itself to current authors, but delved far into the past to include ancient authors, as well as writers closer to the twentieth century. It was eclectic - it did not avoid uncomfortable issues, thus there are articles on race (Gunnar Myrdal on "Who is a Negro?"); it did not restrict its content to the Western Canon (thus we see an excerpt from Mohammed on morals, and, also, some precepts from Confucius); it brought in famous authors such as Shelley, Hazlitt, Dickens, Washington Irving, Tolstoy, and Boccaccio; arts include traditional things, but modern artists such as Paul Gauguin, NYCAaron Copeland and Salvador Dali contribute, as well as various commentaries on film, book reviews, and Howard Mumford on architecture; philosophical entries include Schopenhauer, Russell, Emerson, Thomas More, Machiavelli; history makes an appearance through James Boswell, Hector St. John Crèvecoeur, Tocqueville, the Reverend R. Walsh (a Visit to a Slave Ship), James Madison and others; science is not shirked - both physical and human, (Freud, Sir Arthur Eddington, Thorsten Veblin).
There is a good deal of humor, both written and visual is included (Damon Runyan, Will Rogers, A. P. Herbert, etc) There is much, much more in this hardbound 1946 Volume 10, which includes the issues from July to December. We've only mentioned a few of the authors included, but have provided a view of the Table of Contents (use the zoom function provided). If you have any questions about content please enquire.
TITLE : Encore - A Continuing Anthology
ISSUE : Volume 10
DATE : July - December, 1946
EDITORS : Staff of the Saturday Review
IMPRINT : Encore Press
EDITION : Bound Volume
STATUS : OP . Fairly scarce.
PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION : Monthly Periodical, Bound Issues , July to December; contains numerous monochrome and line illustrations; 672 pages; approx. 5 1/4" x 7 3/8"; dark green, cloth-covered boards with gilt lettering on spine; olive green end-papers.
CONDITION -- VERY GOOD -- This is a previously owned volume which remains clean, complete and solid - quite serviceable, with the following particulars and imperfections noted:
EXTERIOR : Spine extremities display compression and wear (abrasion); spine surface is modestly weathered and displays a bit of scuffing; the lettering is dulled, but legible; joints are rubbed; boards light surface rub and a touch of scuff; board corners are softly bumped; text-block edges are somewhat weathered and display foxing and light spotting - else clean.
BINDING : Solid.
INTERIOR : Scattered foxing, likely a few small spots and smudges (nothing jumped right out); basically clean and presentable throughout with no writing and no signatures.
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