The Open Street.
"The street is packed with silence. Not yet fully awake, I feel myself dreamily carried along on an invisible human tide": First signed limited edition of Alfred Kazin's The Open Street
The Open Street.
KAZIN, Alfred.
$175.00
Item Number: 96772
New York: Reynal & Hitchcock, 1948.
First edition of Kazin’s short tribute to the streets of Manhattan, a selection from the work in progress that would become A Walker in the City. Small octavo, original quarter cloth over speckled boards, photographic endpapers by Victor Kraft. One of only 1,000 copies privately printed for the author, inscribed by him on the limitation page, “For my friend Belle, affectionately Alfred Kazin 1948.” In fine condition.
The son of Russian Jewish immigrants, American critic and author Alfred Kazin wrote three autobiographical works: A Walker in the City (1951), which evokes his youth in Brooklyn; Starting Out in the Thirties (1965), memoirs of his young manhood; and New York Jew (1978), about his life during the years from World War II to the 1970s.
