The Smart Set Anthology

New York: Reynal & Hitchcock. Very Good+. (c.1934). First Edition. Hardcover. (no dust jacket) [a good sound copy with light shelfwear, minor soiling to rear cover, tiny dents in top and bottom edges of front cover, modest discoloration/age-toning to spine cloth]. 844 pages in length, this volume presents a broad and inclusive selection of short fiction, drama, articles, criticism, essays, poetry and more from the magazine that was published from 1900 through 1930. From 1914 until 1924, when they departed to launch The American Mercury, the publication was co-edited by H.L. Mencken and George Jean Nathan, who turned it into one of the most important and widely-read outlets for literary fiction of the era. Indeed, the list of contributors represented by these 100+ pieces reads like a who's-who of the era's literary elite: F. Scott Fitzgerald, Aldous Huxley, Sinclair Lewis, D.H. Lawrence, Dorothy Parker, Dashiell Hammett, Christopher Morley, Joseph Conrad, Dorothy Canfield, Maxwell Anderson, Ben Hecht, Donald Ogden Stewart, Jim Tully, Charles McArthur [sic], Eugene O'Neill, Theodore Dreiser, James Joyce, Lewis Mumford, Floyd Dell, Julia Peterkin, and many more. The introduction is a 32-page history of the magazine, by Burton Rascoe. ****NOTE that additional postage charges will be assessed for international shipping of this heavy book; if this concerns you, please contact us for a shipping quote before placing your order. As always at ReadInk, domestic Media Mail shipping is FREE.**** .