The reading public
By: by Jessamyn West
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Harcourt, Brace
Published: 1952
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 29
Subjects: Fiction; Technique; Authors and readers
Notes: "Anno MCMLIII, This first edition of 'The reading public' is privately printed for the friends of the author and her publishers as a New Year's greeting."--Page [1].

Includes letters from readers Enos Perkins, Josephine Hogan, John Happy Rawlings, Kenneth Webster, and Sarah Bemis.

"Our ... task then as writers ... is to patiently and laboriously search for the best means by which the unique wetness of the particular rain which is to fall in our next chapter may be conveyed ..."--Page 29.

Title page printed in yellow and black. Yellow initials.

In decorative yellow, green, and blue paper over boards. Blue endpapers.

Gift; the family of Donald C. Brace.