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The Happy Profession by Sedgwick, Ellery - 1946

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The Happy Profession by Sedgwick, Ellery - 1946

The Happy Profession

by Sedgwick, Ellery

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Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1946. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall. Black cloth spine, tan cloth boards. xii, 343 pp. Offsetting to endpapers. Bookplate of C.B. Farrar. Gift inscription to ffep. Pencil notation to head of rfep. Dust jacket is price clipped, age toned, bumped to extremities, a few tiny chips to spine ends. This is a volume of memories and opinions, humour, and human interest, politics and society, fully selected and warmly told by one of the ablest editors of our time. It is a new kind of autobiography, for those who like to see an era through the eyes of a man who has distinguished it.
  • Bookseller Independent bookstores CA (CA)
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  • Edition 1st Edition
  • Binding Hardcover
  • Publisher Little, Brown and Company
  • Place of Publication Boston
  • Date Published 1946
  • Keywords literature, editors, literary editors, Atlantic Monthly Press, memoir, literary memoir, Ellery Sedgwick, autobiography, Boston

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The Happy Profession

by SEDGWICK, Ellery

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Atlantic Monthly Press/Little, Brown and Company, January 1946. Hardcover. Good.
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Happy Profession, The

by Sedgwick, Ellery

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Boston: Atlantic Monthly Pr. / Little, Brown. 1946. vg. Hardcover. 3rd ptg.; 343pp including index; off-white cover; black backstrip; maroon title bands front & spine with gilt & green decoration; top edge dyed; small chips & tears top edge of dust jacket .
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The Happy Profession

by Sedgwick Ellery

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Boston: Little, Brown, 1946. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Hardcover w/ jacket.Free endpaper carries gift inscription to a " V.W. Cather 3/4/54 ".1940 census show a V.W. Cather as resident of Portland, oregon ( born Nebraska ).No edge / corner bumps or wears. No dogears. All very clean and tight. Jacket has light edge chips. Pub price clipped.
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Boston, Ma: Little, Brown & Co. 1946 Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. Third Printing. Private Press. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Dj is worn on edges and corners. Light chipping and rubbing. Book has watermarks on front board with bending on spine edges. Still a very solid book.. Hardcover.
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The Happy Profession

by Ellery Sedgwick

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Eyre & Spottiswoode, 1948. Hardcover. Good/Good. 1948. No Edition Remarks. 343 pages. Pictorial dust jacket over green cloth. Pages and binding are presentable with no major defects. Minor issues present such as mild cracking, inscriptions, inserts, light foxing, tanning and thumb marking. Overall a good condition item. Boards have mild shelf wear with light rubbing and corner bumping. Some light marking and sunning. Unclipped jacket has light edge-wear with minor tears and chipping. Mild rubbing and marking.
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little brown, 1946 reprint. ner fine book very good jacket closed spine tear
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Eyre and Spottiswoode, 1948 VG. no dj. Clean sharp-cornered green boards - but gilt titling to spine though a tad dulled is perfectly readable. Firm binding. internally, a lovely clean copy, without inscriptions or marginalia. 1st. The autobiography of the long time editor of the Atlantic Monthly.
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Other: Other. Very Good. Hardcover. Boston, 1946 reprint. Good to very good condition, no dust jacket. .
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Boston: Np. Very Good. 1946. Hardcover. Boston, 1946 reprint. Good to very good condition, no dust jacket. .
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The Happy Profession

by Sedgwick, Ellery

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Greenwood Press, 1972. Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. green cloth over boards. Clean throughout. Binding tight.
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