Book-of-the-Month Club News - May 1943

New York: Book of the Month Club News, 1943.

Price: $35.00

Softcover. Magazine. Octav. 32pp. Pictorial wrappers reproducing a painting, in color, of John Brown by John Stuart Curry. Near fine in stapled wrappers with some edgewear. This issue features a brief statement about Stephen Vincent Benet's death (in early 1943), his book *John Brown's Body*, and his poem, "Prayer" ("Written for and read by President Roosevelt to the United Nations on Flag Day, 1942") on the rear cover. Also included in this issue is a review of and excerpt from Isak Dinesen's *Winter's Tales*, an essay by Evelyn Waugh ("Hilary A. St. George Saunders"), and reviews by Christopher Morley, Dorothy Canfield, and others.

Item #511177

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Item #511177 Book-of-the-Month Club News - May 1943. Stephen Vincent BENET, Isak Dinesen, Christopher Morley, Evelyn Waugh.