A Century of Arts & Letters
New York: Columbia University Press, 1998. First Edition, First Printing.
Small Quarto 10 1/4 x7 1/8 inches; 260 x 180 mm), xii, [4] 346 pages, in red cloth, gilt titles to upper board and spine. No dust jacket was issued.
SIGNED on the title page by the editor, John Updike, as well as all of the other contributors: Louis Auchincloss, Jack Beeson, Hortense Calisher, Ada Louise Huxtable, Wolf Kahn, R.W.B. Lewis, Richard Lippold, Norman Mailer, Cynthia Ozick, and Arthur Schlesinger Jr. Copies signed by all 11 contributors are scarce to the market.
This volume is a history of the National Institute of Arts & Letters and the American Academy of Arts & Letters. Heavily illustrated with black-and-white photos. Issued without a dust jacket.
CONDITION: Front hinge a bit loose but holding. Some minor rubbing to the boards, small stain to upper board's right edge, small scrape to the lower board's list of contributors, not affecting any text. Internally clean and unmarked. Very Good or better. Item #626
Price: $300.00