High spots of American literature
An edition of High spots of American literature (1929)
a practical bibliography and brief literary estimate of outstanding American books
By Merle De Vore Johnson
Publish Date
1929
Publisher
Bennett Book Studios
Language
eng
Pages
114
Description:
Written for book collectors, Merle Johnson's High Spots of American Literature offers the author's view of which books he believes have literary merit. Johnson describes the first editions of these books, and a brief squib about the author. In today's market it can also serve as a checklist of books considered good reading at the turn of the 20th century. Some of the authors, Twain and Sinclair Lewis, survive. Others, James Lane Allen, Henry Cuyler Bunner, not so much.