The Collection Part I
The Happy Profession
The Happy Profession
$45.00
by Ellery Sedgwick
Published in 1946 by Little, Brown, and Company, Boston
Edition: Third printing, special edition
Binding: Hardcover
Condition: Very good; some shelf wear, foxed edges.
Comments: A Harvard Prize book. Bound in red leather and cloth, bearing a gilt Harvard seal on its front, gilt lettering and design on its spine, and gilt upper edges. Provides a description of the Harvard Prize Books award and an inscription from the Harvard Club of Andover to the winning student at The Johnson High School, dated 1947. The book itself is an autobiography by Ellery Sedgwick, a Harvard alumnus who was the editor of The Atlantic Monthly from 1908-1938. An interesting piece of history, both of the Harvard prize book tradition and of the 20th century literary world.
Seller Inventory #: 0000308
Published in 1946 by Little, Brown, and Company, Boston
Edition: Third printing, special edition
Binding: Hardcover
Condition: Very good; some shelf wear, foxed edges.
Comments: A Harvard Prize book. Bound in red leather and cloth, bearing a gilt Harvard seal on its front, gilt lettering and design on its spine, and gilt upper edges. Provides a description of the Harvard Prize Books award and an inscription from the Harvard Club of Andover to the winning student at The Johnson High School, dated 1947. The book itself is an autobiography by Ellery Sedgwick, a Harvard alumnus who was the editor of The Atlantic Monthly from 1908-1938. An interesting piece of history, both of the Harvard prize book tradition and of the 20th century literary world.
Seller Inventory #: 0000308