Here is New York
New York: Harper and Brothers, 1949. First Edition with BoMC dust jacket. 12mo, 7 3/8 x 5 1/4 inches (187 x 131 mm); 54, (4) pp. Frontispiece photograph of New York view and reproduction of a pencil drawing on last page by Edward C. Caswell. Publisher's grey cloth with red titles on cover and spine. Book-of-the Month dust jacket, lightly toned and with a little rubbing to the head and tail of the spine. Binding in perfect condition, pages fresh and unmarked.
First Edition (I-Y) with a Book-of-the-Month Club dust jacket and loosely inserted 4 page flyer (7 x 5 inches) from the Book-of-the-Month Club titled "Here is New York... and all the magic and terror of the city in a little book likely to outlast its steel and concrete. / A report by Clifton Fadiman".
Previous owner's name in ink on front inside cover.
By the author of Stuart Little, this little booklet was written by E. B. White in the summer of 1948, E.B. White sat in a New York City hotel room and, sweltering in the heat, wrote a remarkable pristine essay, "Here is New York". Perceptive, funny, and nostalgic, the author's stroll around Manhattan, with the reader arm-in-arm, remains the quintessential love letter to the city, written by one of America's foremost literary figures. "Here is New York" has been chosen by The New York Times as one of the ten best books ever written about the city. The New Yorker calls it "the wittiest essay, and one of the most perceptive, ever done on the city." - Roger Angell.
Condition: Fine / Near fine.
Item number: 542
Price: $175.00
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