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The reading public

Title
The reading public / by Jessamyn West.
Author
West, Jessamyn.
Publication
New York : Harcourt, Brace, ©1952.

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29 pages; 20 cm
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  • "Anno MCMLIII, This first edition of 'The reading public' is privately printed for the friends of the author and her publishers as a New Year's greeting."--Page [1].
  • Includes letters from readers Enos Perkins, Josephine Hogan, John Happy Rawlings, Kenneth Webster, and Sarah Bemis.
  • "Our ... task then as writers ... is to patiently and laboriously search for the best means by which the unique wetness of the particular rain which is to fall in our next chapter may be conveyed ..."--Page 29.
  • Title page printed in yellow and black. Yellow initials.
  • In decorative yellow, green, and blue paper over boards. Blue endpapers.
OCLC
  • ocm01109232
  • 1109232
  • SCSB-4222581
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Columbia University Libraries