The Second Tree From The Corner.

WHITE, E.B.

Item Number: 115608

New York: Harper & Brothers Publishers, 1954.

First edition of this collection of White’s short stories, poems, and sketches. Octavo, original cloth. One of five hundred copies of the first edition signed by the author on the limitation page. Near fine in a very good dust jacket. Jacket design by Susan Foster.

White eloquently states in his foreword to the present volume: "A tendency to revisit, to try old places and other times in the hope of tasting again the sweet sorrow of parting, is discernible in these pages. The book, in some of its sketches, is a sentimental journey to the scene of my crime... Whoever sets pen to paper writes of himself, whether knowingly or not, and this is a book of revelations: essays, poems, stories, opinions, reports, drawn from the past, the present, the future, the city and the country."