Wood, Frederick T. (edited and selected) — Modern Autobiography. An Anthology
Macmillan, London, 1946. First Edition, Green Cloth. Very Good/No Jacket. gilt titles spine; "an anthology of fourteen autobiographies by characters so diverse as a war correspondent who later became a Prime Minister, a tramp, an airman, a lady of leisure, a taxi driver, a farm labourer and a hospita! nurse. The editor has placed a wide interpretation upon the term 'autobiography' to include memoirs, reminiscences and similar kinds of writing in which the personal motive predominates.These extracts are of a fair length thus each of them, though part of a larger whole, is, for all practical purposes complete in itself."; library number on spine, label inside front cover & stamped on fep & title page; previous owner's name on front endpaper; a neat copy with bright gilt titles; including notes & exercises - 245 pages. Size: 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Quantity Available: 1. Category: Biography & Autobiography; Anthologies; Modern; Biography & Autobiography. Inventory No: BOG00023.
