The Pit
Columbus, OH: Charles E. Merrill, 1970. 1970 Green cloth hardcover 8vo, 421pp. Near fine in a generally very good dust jacket with rubbing wear to extremeties, some edgewear. Inscribed by general editor of the series Matthey Bruccoli to fellow editor of the series, Joseph Kat. From Bruccoli's collection. 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. Item #z04709
ISBN: 9780675093675
Price: $22.40