What Is an Editor? Saxe Commins at Work

Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 1978. First Edition. Fine bright copy in a very good plus dust jacket with a slight touch of dust soiling and a couple of very faint spots to the front panel. A loving and insightful portrait of Saxe Commins, senior editor at Random House from 1933 until his death in 1958. Commins worked with some of the most influential and important writers of the 20th century, including Theodore Dreiser, Gertrude Stein, W.H. Auden, Stephen Spender, Sinclair Lewis, James Michener, William Carlos Williams, Isak Dinesen, and, especially William Faulkner and Eugene O’Neill, among others. (Inventory #: 15062E)