Charles Scribner's Sons, NY, 1953. Selected with a Foreword and twelve Brief Prefaces by Charles Poore. Brick-red cloth, deckled fore-pages, gilt letters. Minor spine bumping, hd & ft, corners sharp. Neat p.o. bookplate, inside front board. No other markings. Crisp white pages. 652 pages.
Very nice copy of this '50's compendium. Includes excerpts from: 'In Our Time'; 'The Torrents Of Spring'; 'The Sun Also Rises'; 'A Farewell To Arms'; 'Death In The Afternoon'; 'Green Hills Of Africa'; 'To Have And Have Not'; 'For Whom The Bell Tolls'; 'Across The River And Into The Trees'; and 'The Old Man And The Sea', among many other writings.
