An autobiography. / Van Wyck Brooks. Foreword by John Hall Wheelock. Introduction by Malcolm Cowley.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Brooks, Van Wyck, 1886-1963.

Contributor:

Wheelock, John Hall, 1886-1978.

Cowley, Malcolm, 1898-1989.

Yeats, John Butler, 1839-1922.

Nasser, Muriel.

Culture Class Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

American Culture Class Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Brooks, Van Wyck, 1886-1963.

Brooks, Van Wyck.

Authors, American--20th century--Biography.

Authors, American.

Critics--United States--Biography.

Critics.

United States.

Genre:

Biographies.

Autobiographies.

Physical Description:

xxxvi, 667 pages, 1 unnumbered page, 1 unnumbered leaf of plates : color portrait ; 22 cm

Edition:

[First Edition.].

Other Title:

Van Wyck Brooks an autobiography

Place of Publication:

New York : E. P. Dutton & Co., Inc., 1965.

Contents:

Scenes and portraits, memories of childhood and youth.

Days of the Phoenix, the nineteen-twenties I remember.

From the shadow of the mountain, my post-meridian years.

Notes:

With half-title.

Portrait of the author is a pastel sketch, 1909, by John Butler Yeats.

Contains poem "Dear Men and Women" (p. xv-xvi) inscribed in memory of Van Wyck Brooks by John Hall Wheelock.

A one volume edition of the author's 3 books of memoirs originally published in 1954, 1957 and 1961.

Includes index.

"Jacket design by Muriel Nasser."

Blue cloth spine lettered in gilt; yellow boards with Dutton medallion stamped in gilt on front cover. Top edge stained blue; all edges trimmed.

Price from dust-jacket: $10.00.

Local Notes:

Culture Class Collection copy has dust-jacket retained.

OCLC:

638006