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Breaking into print : being a compilation of papers wherein each of a select group of authors tells of the difficulties of authorship & how such trials are met : together with biographical notes and comment

Title
Breaking into print : being a compilation of papers wherein each of a select group of authors tells of the difficulties of authorship & how such trials are met : together with biographical notes and comment / by an editor of the Colophon, Elmer Adler.
Publication
New York : Simon and Schuster, 1937.

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Additional Authors
  • Harper, George McLean, 1863-1947
  • Adler, Elmer, 1884-1962
Description
vii-x, 196 p. : illus., facsims.; 24 cm.
Uniform Title
Colophon.
Subject
  • Authorship
  • Authors
  • Authorship
  • authorship
  • authors
  • Authors
  • Letterkunde
  • Auteurschap
  • Amerikaans
Genre/Form
  • Publishers' cloth bindings (Binding) – United States – 1937.
  • Autographs (Provenance)
Note
  • The essays were first published in the Colophon.
  • Written in pencil on p. [3] of cover: "To Dr. Harper, for tea-time display. hopefully, Elmer Adler. March MCMXLI Princeton" ; Written in pencil on p. [2] of cover: "Received back from Princeton Library 19 November 1953"
Contents
On being published / Sherwood Anderson -- Why does nobody collect me? / Robert Benchley -- The sixth man / Stephen Vincent Benét -- The writing of east wind: west wind / Pearl Buck -- Recipes for writers / James Branch Cabell -- Post-bellum-pre-Harlem / Charles Waddell Chesnutt -- On first getting into print / A.E. Coppard -- The early adventures of Sister Carrie / Theodore Dreiser -- Biography and bibliographies / Joseph Hergesheimer -- First book / Robinson Jeffers -- My memoirs of the civil war / MacKinlay Kantor -- Alias Kent, by Hogarth. Jr. / Rockwell Kent -- Breaking into print / Sinclair Lewis -- Getting into print / William McFee -- On breaking into type / H.L. Mencken -- The eighth sin / Christopher Morley -- The first seven years / Edwin Arlington Robinson -- Notes for an autobiography / Carl Van Vechten -- My first published book / Hugh Walpole -- The writing of Ethan Frome / Edith Wharton.
LCCN
37028543
OCLC
  • ocm00994425
  • 994425
  • SCSB-271263
Owning Institutions
Princeton University Library