The literary life and the hell with it / by Whit Burnett Editor of "Story" with drawings by Bemelmans.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Burnett, Whit, 1899-1973.

Contributor:

Bemelmans, Ludwig, 1898-1962.

Gotham Book Mart Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Series:

Story press book.

A Story press book.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Literature--Anecdotes.

Literature.

Genre:

Anecdotes.

Penn Provenance:

Twitchell, Ken (autograph) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copy 1)

Rothman, Harry D. (autograph) (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copy 3)

Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copies 1-3)

Physical Description:

vii pages, 3 unnumbered pages, 276 pages, 2 unnumbered pages : illustrations ; 22 cm.

Edition:

[First edition].

Place of Publication:

New York ; London : Harper & Brothers Publishers, 1939 [c1936].

Contents:

Men of good humor

Some literary beginnings

Dear old Graebisch

Writers as readers

Time and notes

Hammock writing

Maiden efforts

Conversations with Gertrude Stein

The first five years

Of many things

The weather

On moving a lake or upsetting nature

Writers smell gunpowder

Words on the wing

The fertile eggs of literature

Writing on thin air

Operations unveiled and the sunken veins

Only Hindus sell lettuce in Jamaica

"... rose-red city old as time".

Notes:

"Story Press Books are published by Harper & Brothers in association with Story Magazine, Inc."

Endpapers and title page illustrated by Bemelmans.

Local Notes:

Gotham Book Mart Collection copy 1 has dustjacket retained.

Gotham Book Mart Collection copy 1 has autographed bookplate of Ken Twitchell.

Gotham Book Mart Collection copy 2 has correspondence laid in between Andreas Brown and Captain Books regarding purchases and inquiries requesting literature about the Gotham Book Mart.

Gotham Book Mart Collection copy 3 has ms. note "Harry D. Rothman" on half-title.

OCLC:

78724377