Jordanie

1960 · 26670 — Caldwell ID: The Caxton Printers Ltd. Good in Good dj. 1960. First Edition. Hardcover. price-clipped a good sound copy but at some point the book had gotten wet which has caused some fading to the boards along the lower edges and some staining to the dust jacket in the same areas mostly internal except for the rear panel; the jacket is also moderately edgeworn with various small nicks and tiny edge-tears. INSCRIBED and SIGNED by the author on the front endpaper: "for Mary Dodge Evans -- / with best wishes of / Paul Jordan Smith / June 30 1966." "A personal chronicle of love and adventure on a road leading from the upper Valley of Virginia to the Redwood Groves of California. The author was a bookman for twenty-five years the literary editor of the Los Angeles Times and here makes a survey of literary tastes and of the changes in literary standards over sixty years. There are stories of his meetings with such writers as Thomas Hardy Arthur Machen Sir Hugh Walpole Hamlin Garland Havelock Ellis Sinclair Lewis and many others. There is material on his early championship of Margaret Mitchell's famous novel 'Gone With the Wind' and two delightful and revealing letters from her hitherto unpublished are included." Other writers and notable people he encountered and has some interesting anecdotal material about include Charlie Chaplin William Faulkner John Cowper Powys Willard Huntington Wright S.S. Van Dine H.G. Wells and Rebecca West. Signed by Author . The Caxton Printers, Ltd. hardcover books