From a writer's notebook / by Van Wyck Brooks.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Brooks, Van Wyck, 1886-1963.

Contributor:

Metzig, William, 1893-1989.

Culture Class Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

American Culture Class Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

English

Genre:

Essays.

Penn Provenance:

Untermeyer, Louis, 1885-1977 (inscription) (Culture Class Collection copy AC9 B7918 958f)

Untermeyer, Bryna (inscription) (Culture Class Collection copy AC9 B7918 958f)

Brooks, Van Wyck (autograph) (Culture Class Collection copies)

Birdwhistell, Robert Nevins, family of (donor) (Culture Class Collection copy)

Physical Description:

10 unnumbered pages, 182 pages ; 18 cm

Edition:

[First Edition.].

Place of Publication:

New York : E. P. Dutton & Company, Inc., 1958.

Contents:

On the margin

Readers and writers

In our time

American notes

The literary life

On words

Notes on novelists

Notes on criticism

Mostly personal

Afterthoughts

Reflections on the Avant-Garde.

Notes:

With half-title.

"Copyright, 1958, by Van Wyck Brooks."

"A few of these notes have appeared in earlier books of mine, while others have been printed in 'The Nation' and "The New York Times Book Review'; but most of them are published here for the first time."--Foreword.

Includes index.

"Jacket design by William Metzig."

Price from dust-jacket: $3.00.

Orange cloth binding lettered in white on spine; front cover has Dutton medallion stamped in blind.

Local Notes:

Culture Class Collection copy has dust-jacket retained.

Culture Class Collection copy (AC9 B7918 958f) inscribed to Louis & Bryna by Van Wyck Brooks 1957.

OCLC:

188059