Stated First Printing in clean unclipped dust jacket. Clean black boards with beige cloth spine, red title box on spine with gold lettering. Some fading to extreme edges of boards. No fraying or wear. Binding is tight & square, no cracking.Clean red endpapers. No names or bookplates. Pages and edges are clean. Introduction by John T. Winterich. 481 pgs. Clean dustjacket (very slight tanning to edges of white rear panel), has not been price clipped, is unchipped. Enclosed in new archival quality mylar cover. Outstanding writers of years past, such as G. K. Chesterton and Ford Madox Ford, and James Thurber present reminiscences and biographical portraits of important and striking figures who have appeared on or near the literary scene over the past century.