Scenes and portraits : memories of childhood and youth / by Van Wyck Brooks.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Brooks, Van Wyck, 1886-1963.

Contributor:

Yeats, John Butler, 1839-1922.

Culture Class Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

American Culture Class Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Brooks, Van Wyck, 1886-1963--Childhood and youth.

Brooks, Van Wyck.

Brooks, Van Wyck, 1886-1963.

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

Authors, American.

Critics--United States--Biography.

Critics.

United States.

Genre:

Biographies.

Autobiographies.

Penn Provenance:

Thomas, A. L. (autograph) (Culture Class Collection copy)

Physical Description:

10 unnumbered pages, 243 pages, 3 unnumbered pages, 1 unnumbered leaf of plates : color portrait ; 22 cm

Edition:

[First Edition.].

Manufacture:

New York : Printed in the United States of America American Book--Stratford Press, Inc.

Place of Publication:

[New York] : E. P. Dutton & Company, Inc., 1954.

Notes:

With half-title.

Portrait of Van Wyck Brooks is a pastel sketch, 1909 by John Butler Yeats.

"Copyright, 1954 by Van Wyck Brooks."

"'Scenes and Portraits' is a book of memories covering the years from 1886 when the author was born to 1914 and the eve of World War I."--Dust-jacket.

Price from dust-jacket: $4.50.

Dark blue cloth spine with white paper label; grey boards with Dutton medallion stamped in blind. Top edge stained red; all edges trimmed.

Local Notes:

Culture Class Collection copy has dust-jacket retained.

Culture Class Collection copy has autograph of A. L. Thomas 1954.

OCLC:

279911