Twentieth Century Parody: American and British

New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, (1960).

Price: $45.00

Hardcover. First edition. Introduction by Nathaniel Benchley. Errata slip affixed on the title page correcting Mel Brooks as the author of "Death to a Salesman." Octavo. xv, 304pp. A near fine copy with lightly bumped corners in very good dust jacket with moderately rubbed front panel, spine is faded as usual due to color of printing on spine. Contains the first book appearance of "On the Sidewalk (after Reading, at Long Last, 'On the Road' by Jack Kerouac)" by John Updike [Roberts B4; this piece was also printed, in 1960, in *Parodies*. An Anthology from Chaucer to Beerbohm-And After. Compiled... by Dwight MacDonald]. Additional contributions by John Steinbeck, E.B. White, Edmund Wilson, James Thurber, and more.

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Item #527996 Twentieth Century Parody: American and British. John UPDIKE, James Thurber, Edmund Wilson, E. B. White, John Steinbeck, more.