Obscure Travel Lit—by STANTON DELAPLANE—"Irreplaceable"—Herb Caen—1st HC

Description: • For Your Consideration: • A (RARE) SIGNED First Edition in HARDCOVER of: • “THE WORLD OF STANTON DELAPLANE” (Coward-McCann, 1959) (Hardcover, First Edition, First Printing) • BY STANTON DELAPLANE • “The last of the old irreplaceables.”—HERB CAEN • “STANTON DELAPLANE wrote like a young and happy and wholly successful pupil of HEMINGWAY. He rarely wrote sentences of more than six or seven words and he could go weeks without calling on an adjective. His peculiar magic, which I often probed into and never discovered, was to keep these bare sentences rollicking along in the most effortless way, running as clean as spring water over the bed of a brook. He could not help being an entertaining writer and that is a gift that very few writers indeed can legitimately claim from the double-domed philosophers to the light-weight journalists.”—ALISTAIR COOKE • “In his SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLE column, DELAPLANE could say more in 600 words, and say it better and with more style, than anyone writing for the dailies at that time. Short, simple sentences sputtered across the page deceptively. DELAPLANE mistrusted most adjectives, but liked verbs that gave his stories a compelling stop-and-go rhythm…. [An] impeccable prose stylist.”—ERNIE BEYT, NORTHSIDE SAN FRANCISCO (MAGAZINE) • “STANTON DELAPLANE…wrote for the SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLE for more than fifty years. I grew up reading his syndicated column which reached millions. His books were national best sellers. Yet despite his success, including winning the PULITZER PRIZE for reporting, he is hardly recognized today. He should be ranked with THURBER and TWAIN. Read [his] column and feel better. He made my life better.”—THOMAS FARLEY’S BLOG (BLOG) • ABOUT THIS TITLE: • The Second Book from a Columnist, who, along with HERB CAEN, CHARLES McCABE, ART HOPPE, & OTHERS, contributed to the Heyday of the SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLE. • “With a perceptive and whimsical eye for the strange, the anachronistic, the madcap wherever he goes, STAN DELAPLANE prepares all Americans for the adventures which await them when they set foot outside the terra firm of the United States. And to the armchair traveler who prefers to stay at home he gives one observer’s opinion—a wildly funny one—of what goes on in the big wide world of today. “STANTON DELAPLANE’s POSTCARDS column emanates from San Francisco and appears regularly in dozens of newspapers throughout the country. He has written one other book, won the Pulitzer Prize for reporting in 1941 and a National Headline Award for his story—famous to Golden Gaters—on the first fourteen wives of the streetcar conductor he labeled ‘The Ding Don Daddy of the D Car Line.’ He spends eight months of the year away from San Francisco and knows, as he will admit under pressure, more cabdrivers in Tokyo than in his own home town!” —THE PUBLISHER • • For other details about this book, please see below. • TITLE: “THE WORLD OF STANTON DELAPLANE” AUTHOR: STANTON DELAPLANETYPE: HARDCOVER PUBLISHER, LOCALE, & YEAR: Coward-McCann (New York), 1959 EDITION: First Edition, First Printing* *RE: On the Copyright Page, no later editions are listed. NOTE: This copy is NOT an ex-library copy NOR a book-club edition. PAGES: 314 ISBN: N/A (PRE-ISBN) CONDITION OF DUST JACKET: GOOD.Price ($3.95) unclipped. Quarter-sized chunk on top edge of back is missing; spine tips& corners are chipped. Spine is sunned. DJ is lightly but persistently soiled & smudged & scuffed & creased but DJ is intact & text & imagery are bright. (Now protected in a Brodart archival cover.) CONDITION OF BOOK: VERY GOOD.Book is square & firm. Boards are bright & clean with rubbed/scuffed corners & spine tips. Spine is tight & uncreased. Lettering & imagery on spine & front remain vivid. Text-block edges are moderately age-toned & scuffed. Inside covers are lightly ghosted. Pages, despite being moderately age-toned, are all are pointedly clean & bright—with no writing (other than the author’s inscription & signature), no underlining, no highlighting, no foxing, no staining, no tears/rips, no foul odor, etc. THE AUTHOR’S SIGNATURE & INSCRIPTION: Appear, in blue ink, on the front free endpaper as follows: “To Evelyn Larkin, with best regards, STAN DELAPLANE.” • SHIPPING NEWS: This book will be wrapped with care before being shipped in a cushioned & sturdy box. 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End Time: 2024-02-10T14:26:33.000Z

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