One Man's Meat

New York: Harper & Brothers, (1942).

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Hardcover. First edition. Rubbing at the extremities, near very good in a heavily chipped and taped dustwrapper, housed in a cloth clamshell case with morocco spine label gilt. E.B. White's own copy with his ownership signature, and his penciled corrections on four pages. Also in a pocket in the case is a Typed Letter Signed ("Andy") at a later date to Harriet Walden, his personal assistant at *The New Yorker* and chief of copywriters about a correction in his earlier essay, "Good-Bye to 48th Street," asking her to correct the essay in *The New Yorker*'s copies of "The Points of My Compass." The author's classic collection of short essays that originally appeared in *Harper's Magazine* or *The New Yorker.* White's good sense, close observation, keen sense of the absurd and essential humanism are almost unparalleled in 20th Century American literature.

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Item #397508 One Man's Meat. E. B. WHITE.

E.B. White
birth name: Elwyn Brooks White
born: 7/11/1899
died: 10/1/1985
nationality: USA

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Leading American essayist and literary stylist of his time. - Merriam-Webster's Encyclopedia of Literaturemore

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White produced collectible books in a number of fields - his early books of humor with a decidedly New Yorker flavor - The Lady is Cold (1929, poetry, as "E.B.W.") and Is Sex Necessary? (1930, with James Thurber). His serious essays, written for The New Yorker and Harper's, such as One Man's Meat (1942, and a scarce title in fine condition because of its wartime vintage), and his children's books, particularly Charlotte's Web (1952) and Stuart Little (1945, the jacket for this title was apparently unchanged except for the price over the first few printings, so unprice-clipped jackets command a premium, and should). One to watch out for was his first separate publication, a small promotional booklet for The New Yorker entitled Less Than Nothing (1927, as Sterling Finny), a slim little volume with an applied label on the front board, and issued without dustwrapper. They must have used weak glue on the label, and it is often (if you can use the word for a book that is rarely seen) missing.more