This early work by Alexander Woollcott was originally published in 1928 and we are now republishing it with a brand new introductory biography. 'Two Gentlemen and a Lady' contains three short stories featuring dogs, including 'The Passing of Nicholas', 'The Story of Verdun Belle', and 'My friend Egon'. Alexander Humphreys Woollcott was born on the 19th January, 1887 in New Jersey, America and was a critic and commentator for The New Yorker magazine. One of New York's most prolific drama critics, Woollcott was an owlish ...
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This early work by Alexander Woollcott was originally published in 1928 and we are now republishing it with a brand new introductory biography. 'Two Gentlemen and a Lady' contains three short stories featuring dogs, including 'The Passing of Nicholas', 'The Story of Verdun Belle', and 'My friend Egon'. Alexander Humphreys Woollcott was born on the 19th January, 1887 in New Jersey, America and was a critic and commentator for The New Yorker magazine. One of New York's most prolific drama critics, Woollcott was an owlish character whose caustic wit either joyously attracted or vehemently repelled the artistic communities of 1920s Manhattan. He was banned for a time from reviewing certain Broadway theatre shows and was frequently criticised for his ornate, florid style of writing. Woollcott was a prolific writer, and created a large body of work during his life, including 'Mrs Fiske: Her views on Actors, Acting and the Problems of Production' (1917), 'The Command is Forward' (1919), 'Shouts and Murmurs' (1922), 'Mr. Dickens Goes to the Play' (1922), 'The Story of Irving Berlin' (1925), and several collections of his newspaper articles. Many more works followed until Woollcott's final book, The Portable Woollcott (1946) which was a posthumous anthology containing the best of his works.
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Lg. 8vo. 121, [1] pp. Frntsp. illust., title illust., numerous text illust. & plates, illust. endpapers. Half-blue cloth over illust. yellow boards (minor soiling to cvrs & shlfwr, crnrs wrn), G+. First edition of this delightful tales of an Airedale named Nicholas Murray Butler; together with the story of a Irish Setter named Verdun Belle, and of course Egon Ficklin, a celebrated German police dog with alarming personal habits. All illustrated by Edwina Dumm (1893-1990) best remembered for her Cap Stubbs & Tippie cartoon strip which ran for nearly five decades.
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Edwina, Illustrator. Very Good in Very Good jacket. Book New York: Coward McCann, 1928. First Edition. Very Good/Very Good. Edwina, Illustrator. Clean yellow boards with blue-green cloth spine, black lettering on cover and spine, illustration of dog on cover. Faint browning to board edges, light wear to corners. Binding is tight & square. Illustrated blue-green endpapers with small previous owner name neatly penned on diagonal near gutter; slight browning to endpapers in gutter area; slight browning to rear endpapers from enclosed newspaper clippings on dogs. 121 pgs. with charming illustrations throughout by Edwina. Dustjacket is not price clipped, has some overall light dust soiling, some browning to spine, 1" deep chip at top spine edge, small chip at top edge of rear panel. Enclosed in new archival quality mylar cover. A reformed dramatic critic writes delightfully of three dogs, a canary, a parrot, and one Persian cat. 8vo. Animals.
This small collection of short stories is saved from being cloying and saccharin by the exceptional quality of the prose Woollcott expends to describe a period of Americana that may only survive in aging tomes and fading memories. This volume requires the reader to adore dogs before opening. Given that caveat, you will not be disappointed.
