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Constant Reader.

Name: Constant Reader.
Author: PARKER, Dorothy; [BEST, Marshall A.].

Book Description

Unrevised proof copy. 8vo. Original orange and black illustrated wrappers. Lean to spine, sunning and edgewear, bottom corners bruised, small “29” in black pen to top right corner of front wrapper, a few marks to rear wrapper. Glue darkened and visible at front hinge, Marshal A. Best’s Viking Press business card taped to first blank, with “from” added in pencil, a single amendment in pink pen to p. v, three Roman numerals in black ink added to Contents pages, musty. Else, clean and bright.

Dealer Notes

A pleasing proof copy of this posthumously published collection of Dorothy Parker’s witty “light-hearted essays about reading and writing,” which appeared in The New Yorker signed ‘Constant Reader’ between 1927 and 1933, and which “played as much [a] part in creating the Parker legend, and were as much part of the times, as her stories and poems.” (’Publisher’s Note’); with Marshal A. Best’s business card taped in.
A long-standing and celebrated senior editorial consultant for Viking Press, Marshall A. Best (1901-1982) was Parker’s editor at Viking.
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Author PARKER, Dorothy; [BEST, Marshall A.].

Date 1970

Binding Paper wrappers

Publisher New York: The Viking Press

Condition Very good

Price: £60.00

Offered by Quair Books

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