THE TWENTIES: From Notebooks and Diaries of the Period. by…

THE TWENTIES: From Notebooks and Diaries of the Period. by Wilson, Edmund (1895-1972); edited by Leon Edel. < >

THE TWENTIES: From Notebooks and Diaries of the Period.

Edition: First printing.

New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, (1975) dj. Hardcover first edition - 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 O'Neill, 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. ISBN: 0-374279632.

Condition: Near fine in beige cloth in a very good dust jacket.

Book ID: 87033
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