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Fifty years : being a retrospective collection of novels, novellas, tales, drama, poetry, and reportage and essays (whether literary, musical, contemplative, historical, biographical, argumentative, or gastronomical) all drawn from volumes issued during the last half-century by Alfred and Blanche Knopf over this sign and device [The borzoi]

Title
Fifty years : being a retrospective collection of novels, novellas, tales, drama, poetry, and reportage and essays (whether literary, musical, contemplative, historical, biographical, argumentative, or gastronomical) all drawn from volumes issued during the last half-century by Alfred and Blanche Knopf over this sign and device [The borzoi] / the whole selected, assembled, and edited, with an introduction and sundry commentaries, by Clifton Fadiman.
Author
Fadiman, Clifton, 1904-1999
Publication
New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 1965.

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  • Chappell, Warren, 1904-1991
  • Alfred A. Knopf, Inc., publisher. http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/pbl
  • Hadden Craftsmen, Inc., compositor, printer, binder. http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/cmt http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/prt http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/bnd
  • S.D. Warren Company, papermaker. http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/ppm
  • Photogravure & Color Co., illustrator. http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/ill
Description
xxxii, 1088 pages : illustrations, portraits; 25 cm
Alternative Title
Fifty years : Borzoi Books 1915-1965 a retrospective collection
Subject
  • Knopf, Alfred A., 1892-1984
  • Knopf, Blanche W., 1894-1966
  • Alfred A. Knopf, Inc
  • 1900-1999
  • Literature, Modern > 20th century
  • Literature, Modern
Note
  • "This is a Borzoi book"--Title page verso.
  • "Composed, printed, and bound by The Hadden Craftsmen, Inc., Scranton, Pa. Paper made by S. D. Warren Company, Boston. Illustrations reproduced by Photogravure and Color Company, Moonachie, N.J. Typography and binding design by Warren Chappell."--Colophon.
  • "Borzoi book."
  • Rare Book AIGA copy: In original slipcase.
Contents
The Gentleman from San Francisco / Ivan Bunin -- The Stranger / Albert Camus -- A Lost lady / Willa Cather -- Farewell, my lovely / Raymond Chandler -- The Immoralist / Andre Gide -- Death in Venice / Thomas Mann -- Mario and the magician / Thomas Mann -- Enoch Soames / Max Beerbohm -- The Demon lover / Elizabeth Bowen -- Two friends / Willa Cather -- Dusky Ruth / A.E. Coppard -- The Landlady / Roald Dahl -- Seaton's aunt / Walter de la Mare -- The Celestial omnibus / E.M. Forster -- El Ombu / W.H. Hudson -- The Man who loved islands / D.H. Lawrence -- The Fly / Katherine Mansfield -- The Loneliness of the long-distance runner / Alan Sillitoe -- Snowing in Greenwich Village / John Updike -- No exit / Jean-Paul Sartre.
LCCN
65011119
OCLC
  • ocm00965345
  • 965345
  • SCSB-2308559
Owning Institutions
Columbia University Libraries