Unseen Harvests
New York: Macmillan Company, 1947. first edition. hardcover. 8vo. 678pp. from front flap: "In Unseen Harvests, modern educators like Mark Van Doren and Jacques Barzun have their say, and famous teachers like William Lyon Phelps, Bliss Perry, and Mary Ellen Chase. There are vivid excerpts from the memoirs of such men as Edward Gibbon, Sean O'Casey, Clarence Darrow, Arthur Machen, and W.B. Yeats. Then there are the essayists and philosophers who have written wisely about education, men like Lamb, Emerson, Edman, Santayana, and Newman. There are humorists and satirists, such as James Thurber, Stephen Leacock, and Max Beerbohm, who have made fun of it. All are to be found in Unseen Harvests." Book VG: mild shelf wear to boards and spine, toning/offset to paste downs and endpapers, text clean, binding tight. / DJ Poor: missing large portions of spine, corner and edge wear, chipping with loss. Item #4442
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