An occupation for gentlemen.
Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1960. 8vo. Illustrated. Publisher’s white clothbacked red boards. Titled in red and brown to spine. In dust jacket.
A very good to near fine jacket. Book in fine condition.
Frederic Warburg [1898-1981], publisher and founder of the publishing house Secker & Warburg. This autobio-graphy is his first published work.
INSCRIBED to Nobel Price Laureate Isaac Bashevis Singer ”[…] a magnificent writer from an amateur. Frederic Warburg, May 18, 1962”. Isaac Bashevis Singer [1902-1992], recipient of the Nobel Prize in Literature 1978, published many of his books on Secker & Warburg.