New Yorker Editor to New Yorker Staff Writer
The Magic Lantern of Marcel Proust
Publication: New York: Macmillan Company, 1962. First Edition.
Notes: A critical study of Proust's Remembrance of Things Past, a classic of literary criticism that is still in print. This copy is inscribed by the author, the poetry editor of the New Yorker, to a New Yorker staff writer.
[2:blank], xii, 111, [3:blank] pages.
Edition + Condition: First edition (stated first printing). A very good to near fine copy in a like dust jacket showing light shelfwear. This copy is inscribed to New Yorker staff writer Susan Black (later Sheehan). "For Susan, from an admirer. Howard Moss. December, 1963." Sheehan later won a Pulitzer Prize for nonfiction. Very uncommon signed.
Provenance: Estate of Susan Sheehan to a Washington, DC, bookstore.
Item No: #51059
Price: $250