Cook, Richard M. — Alfred Kazin: A Biography

Hartford, Connecticut, Yale University Press, 2007. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. The Jewish literary critic Alfred Kazin was at the time of his death in 1998 one of the most prominent intellectuals of post-war America. Heavy focus on the journals that Kazin used to tell of his journey from Brooklyn's Brownsville neighborhood to the head of the class. A superior copy inside and out, being a sterling condition hardcover copy, with unbruised tips, tight binding, and clean internals, showing only very slight shelf- and edge-wear; not ex-library, with neither underlining nor highlighting anywhere. Bright and shiny dust jacket, paper-backed, illustrated, showing only very minor wear, protected by a plastic coat, dust jacket not being price-clipped. Gift-quality condition inside and out. Volume contains scholarly apparatus in the form of, e.g., notes, index, and bibliography. x [1], 2-452 pp.Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. . . . As New/Fine,