Malcolm Cowley. First edition thus. Dust Jacket: Near Fine. An unclipped jacket with original price $12.50 on inside flap. Housed in a mylar protective wrapper. Hardcover: Near Fine. NY: The Viking Press, 1978. No writing or markings in this tight, solid edirion, 276 pp.
A combination of 20th-century literary history and memoir by the editor and critic Malcolm Cowley (1898-1989). Cowley writes about his encounters with American writers from the 1918 onwards. Writers such as Ernest Hemingway, who is referenced throughout the book, and T.S. Eliot, Robert Frost and William Faulkner. Two areas of focus are Paris in the 1920's Greenwich Village and the youth movement of the 1960's.
Cowley's chapter dedicate to Hemingway, "Mr. Papa and the Parricides" is illuminating.
