All about ourselves and other essays / by J.B. Priestley ; chosen and introduced by Eric Gillett
1956, First Edition. London : Heinemann. Good cloth copy in a good if somewhat edge-torn (with some loss) and dust-toned dust-wrapper, now mylar-sleeved. Remains quite well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. Item #293352
Physical description; xvi, 286 pages. Contents; On beginning --; The grumbler's apology --; Open house --; Three men --; Other people's accomplishments --; Lectures --; On not meeting authors --; High, low, broad --; Those terrible novelists --; The editor --; Making writing simple --; The artist --; The peep --; The man with the flare --; Cranks --; On hating strangers --; On vulgar optimists --; The pessimists --; Parties --; A paragon of hosts --; The inn of the six angler --; A London hotel --; Commerical interlude --; A vanished lodging --; Out of it --; This insubstantial pagent --; A road and some moods --; Reminiscences of travel --; Smell of Tahiti --; Lilac in the rain --; American notes --; The skipper --; On overlooking Ccovent Garden --; At a concert --; The disillusioned --; At the circus --; Little tich --; A film actor --; Ellen Terry --; Seeing Stratford --; The Illyrians --; Midsummer day's dream --; Bully bottom --; The Dickens Fayre --; The two wellers --; Mr. Pickwick returns --; Prince Seithenyn --; Trying new. Subjects; English essays 20th century.
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