THE WORLD WE IMAGINE: Selected Essays By Mark Schorer
by Schorer, Mark
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New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1968. 1st edition. Cloth. Near Fine/Very Good. 1st edition, 1968. Very Good. 8vo., 402 pp. Bound in publishers dark blue cloth with yellow and white dust jacket. SIGNED on front end page by author along with inscription to David Bouverie. Jacket shows shelf wear at edges and tips along with a slight water ring on front cover. Interior is clean and unmarked. Scarce with signature. Dust jacket is now protected in mylar sleeve. Mark Schorer (May 17, 1908 - August 11, 1977) was an American writer, critic, and scholar born in Sauk City, Wisconsin.
Among his honors were three Guggenheim Fellowships, a Fulbright professorship at the University of Pisa and a fellowship at the Center for Advanced Study in Behavioral Sciences at Stanford. He also was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the most prestigious honor society for creative arts in the country.
Schorer was called as an expert witness during the 1957 obscenity trial over the Allen Ginsberg poem Howl, and testified in defense of the poem. - Wiki.
Among his honors were three Guggenheim Fellowships, a Fulbright professorship at the University of Pisa and a fellowship at the Center for Advanced Study in Behavioral Sciences at Stanford. He also was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the most prestigious honor society for creative arts in the country.
Schorer was called as an expert witness during the 1957 obscenity trial over the Allen Ginsberg poem Howl, and testified in defense of the poem. - Wiki.
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- Title
- THE WORLD WE IMAGINE: Selected Essays By Mark Schorer
- Author
- Schorer, Mark
- Format/Binding
- Cloth
- Book Condition
- Used - Near Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 1st edition
- Publisher
- Farrar, Straus and Giroux
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1968
- Keywords
- gertrude stein, sherwood anderson, fitzgerald, hemingway,
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