A NEW LAND SPEAKING.
An Essay on the Importance of a National Literature. Pp. 30; printed paper wrappers over card, a trifle soiled and foxed, edges slightly rubbed and browned, faint fracture to upper board near bottom edge; bookseller's stamp at foot of upper free endpaper, the free endpapers offset (heavier on lower free endpaper due to extant loosely inserted newscutting now in mylar sleeve), a couple of spots of foxing; Melbourne University Press/Oxford University Press, Melbourne, 1946. First edition. *From the library of Australian historian and author Hugh Anderson, with his inked signature on the title page. Henry Seidel Canby (1878 - 1961) was a critic, editor, and Yale University professor. For 4 years he was editor of the Literary Review of theNew York Evening Post, and he was one of the founders and editors of the Saturday Review of Literature. In 1945 he spent three months in Australia, where he gave a series of lectures on the development of American literature at the University of Melbourne. Item #129207
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