SIGNED LIMITED, Unshaken Friend: A Profile of Maxwell Perkins, Malcolm Cowley

Boulder, CO: Roberts Rinehart, 1985. NF/NF. Signed First Edition, limited to 250 copies of which this is number 244. The book is tight with solid hinges and good tips. Foxing to top fore-edges. The textblock is clean with no writing, bookplate, or markings and not BCE, ex-library, or remaindered. The dust jacket has light shelf wear and sunning to spine (see photos). No price, as published. Protected in a new Brodart Mylar cover. 48 pages. 5¾ x 8¾". The book will be bubble-wrapped and shipped in a box. Includes publisher's notes.

Malcolm Cowley, a well-known literary historian, insists that the publication of “Unshaken Friend” in a 1944 edition of The New Yorker did not create the Perkins legend. Nonetheless, it made the Scribner editor of Scott Fitzgerald, Ernest Hemingway, and Thomas Woolf a public figure. Cowley stated, “This modest and scrupulous Yankee never wrote a book himself, but he did vastly more than others to create an atmosphere in which good writing flourished."