The Twenties: From Notebooks and Diaries of the Period

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Near fine in beige cloth in a very good dust jacket. Hardcover first edition - New York:: Farrar Straus & Giroux (1975). Hardcover first edition -. Near fine in beige cloth in a very good dust jacket.. First printing. A book which Wilson was working on at the time of his death in 1972 edited and with a long introduction by his literary executor Leon Edel. The first volume of the collected papers of this noted critic who was himself the recipient of many awards including two National Book Awards. Chronology. Includes many first person anecdotes about such writers as F. Scott Fitzgerald Eugene ONeill Mencken e. e. cummings Dorothy Parker and more. Arranged in two sections - 1919 (when Wilson was discharged from the Army and returned to New York City)-1925 and 1926-1930 and geographically within each section - from New York to Provincetown on Cape Cod to California. Illustrated with photographs. Index. xlviii 557 pp.