About this title: Sitting in a sweltering New York hotel room in the summer of 1948, E.B. White began writing his memoir about the world's most fabulous city. He created a beautiful piece of prose in which he completely captures the essence of New York City.
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Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Little Bookroom
Date Published: 2000
ISBN-13:9781892145024ISBN:1892145022
Description: Good. Used item may show library stamps, stickers and marks. Buy with confidence-your satisfaction is guaranteed at B-Logistics! Due to the large scale of our operation, we do not have access to the specific contents/condition of our items. Please note that Expedited shipping is not available at this time. read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Little Bookroom
Date Published: 2000
ISBN-13:9781892145024ISBN:1892145022
Description: Good. Used item may show library stamps, stickers and marks. Buy with confidence-your satisfaction is guaranteed at B-Logistics! Due to the large scale of our operation, we do not have access to the specific contents/condition of our items. Please note that Expedited shipping is not available at this time. read more
Description: Very Good. Great condition for a used book! Minimal wear. Shipped to over one million happy customers. Your purchase benefits world literacy! read more
Edition: Reprint. Grey cloth over boards with black spine.
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Harper & Brothers, New York
Date Published: 1949
Description: Good. No dust jacket. Lt. soiling and a few tiny marks on front & back endpages. The same for covers/spine. Light wear to upper/lower edges/corners/spine. 54 p. illus. 20 cm. Includes Illustrations. "First published in Holiday. " read more
Edition: Book Club (BCE/BOMC)
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Harper & Brothers Pub.
Date Published: 1949
Description: Good. No Jacket. 12mo-over 6¾"-7¾" tall. Light wear to cloth covers, front cover cracked along spine, text crisp & clean, two pages darkened from old newspaper clipping, no other markings. Includes Book Club flyer. read more
Binding: Brown Cloth 5" x 7 1/4"
Publisher: Harper & Brothers, New York
Date Published: c. 1949
Description: photograph/drawing. VG, corners/spine ends a little worn, 1st few pp a little foxed, 55 pp. a few small dents in the early pages, a musing on the city written one hot summer by one of the most graceful of writers, read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: New York: Harper & Brothers Publishers, 1949, New York
Date Published: 1949
Description: Good. No Jacket. 12mo-over 6¾"-7¾" tall. Hard Cover. Good/No Jacket. 12mo-over 6¾"-7¾" tall. E. B. White's prospective of late forties New York City. Cover is slightly discolored with age. Pen markings inside board. read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Harper & Brothers, New York
Date Published: 1949
Description: Very Good in Good jacket. 12mo-over 6¾"-7¾" tall. The interior is clean, binding is good, there is minor wear to the cover. Some very light chipping to the dust jacket. read more
Description: Good. Publishers Overstock. A Good copy with a Remainder Mark and wear to the extremities. There is a small tear on the dust jacket and chipping to the edges. read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Little Bookroom
Date Published: 2000
ISBN-13:9781892145024ISBN:1892145022
Description: Fine in fine dust jacket. 2009P-Like new. Gift quality. Sewn binding. Cloth over boards. With dust jacket. 56 p. Audience: General/trade. read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Harper, New York
Date Published: 1949
Description: Very good. No dust jacket. spine and edges of cover faded, pages yellowing; text and binding fine. 54 p. illus. 20 cm. Includes Illustrations. "First published in Holiday. " read more
"e.b. white somehow encapsulates all that is the New York experience in his 54 beautifully written pages. i have a first edition copy that smells of mildew and has tattered pages. i tuck it into my bag and read it on the subway on days when i wonder why i live in this god awful city. and then i read his words and i remember."
"This elegant essay published as a book is wonderful. Although White wrote about New York City in 1948, it is still true. The Third Avenue EL may be gone, but the people and atmosphere remain the same. The final three pages were chilling when he wrote about what a natural site NYC would be for an air attack. Unfortunately, he imagined the future."
"I think the classic stories about this town are known as such b/c they stand the test of time. Even though this story was written over 60 years ago, hearkening back to a city even older than that, we can imagine that it was written only a few years ago, nostalgic for a city that is only a few years older than that. This is an essay to be read over and over again in different moods and time periods for anyone who has any kind of remote passion for New York."
"It's obviously timelessly good. Here are my 'but's: By the time I got to this essay much of the content had been made into cliches - there was almost nothing left I hadn't heard before. The other but is that even though E. B. White claims otherwise, much of what he discerns for New York goes for any truly cosmopolitan metropolis. Neighborhoods as little cities? check. Everything changes but the city's spirit? check. Inhabitants have to be tolerant or else the city will explode? check. People coming from all over to chase dreams and be closer to their giants? check. It's very easy to be very lonely despite the crowds? check. You get my drift."
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