American Newspaper Publishers, 1950-1990; Dictionary of Literary Biography, Volume One Hundred Twenty-Seven; DLB, Vol. 127

Author: Ashley, Perry J.
Title: American Newspaper Publishers, 1950-1990; Dictionary of Literary Biography, Volume One Hundred Twenty-Seven; DLB, Vol. 127
Publication: Detroit: Gale Research / A Bruccoli Clark Layman Book, 1993
Edition: First printing

Description: First printing. Hardcover. First edition, 1993. Cloth hardcover, 424 pp., illustrated, clean unmarked text, Near Fine copy, light foxing to the page-edges, no dust jacket. No ownership marks, but this was Editorial Director Matthew J. Bruccoli's copy. Matthew Joseph Bruccoli (1931-2008) was the foremost F. Scott Fitzgerald scholar and bibliographer of his time. Additionally, he wrote on, and edited critical editions of Hemingway, Hammett, Cozzens, Thomas Wolfe, John O'Hara, and Vladimir Nabokov. He studied bibliography under the tutelage of Fredson Bowers and worked with Jacob Blanck on the Bibliography of American Literature. He was responsible for the republication and rediscovery of dozens of forgotten American novels, and went on to be the editor and publisher of the 400+ volume Dictionary of Literary Biography, and was the chief editor of the University of Pittsburgh Press bibliography series. Near Fine.

Seller ID: s0008382

Subject: Literary Criticism & Theory