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About Boston, Sight, Sound, Flavor & Inflection by David McCord w/ dust jacket
About Boston, Sight, Sound, Flavor & Inflection by David McCord
Hard Cover with Dust Jacket (has some damage)
192 pages
Copyright 1948
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Relic and Type 19
Clear and Hazy25
Level Measure30
Long Path35
Bronze44
Intramural48
Museum Piece53
Concertmaster57
Of Blue Salt Water65
Ancestors' Worth70
The Wind That Blows75
Dr. Holmes's Garden80
North End85
Quineboquin90
Three If By Air98
Now and Then103
Turnagain Alley108
Brick and Granite112
Philip Hale and H. T. P.127
Marble Index133
Book and Heart138
French Blue and Indian Red144
Puddingstone149
Seamarks158
The Great Fire166
Charles Street Number 148, 171
Smokefall175
Aimless179
Out of Print184
Early and Late189
DUST JACKET INTRODUCTION
This large little book has the strange personal charm of the city which it describes. It is, and will remain, undated. Critics and reviewers have praised it for vitality, a continuously shifting point of view, surprising detail, excellence of language, and the welcome east wind blowing through it.
Reprinted many times, ABOUT BOSTON is being read by the Bostonian "abroad" as a letter from home, by the visitor as an intuitive guidebook, by the stranger with a galvanic resolve to become a visitor, by the omnivorous reader simply to flavor his bill of fare.
"One of the best books ever written about any city," it has moved H. M. Tomlinson to say: "ABOUT BOSTON is home to me, and reads like it, intimate, warm, comfortable, and leisurely."
In 1953 the Boston Bar Association and the Massachusetts Bar Association published eleven chapters from ABOUT BOSTON in book form as a gift to 4000 lawyers attending the Diamond Jubilee Convention of the American Bar Association held in Boston.
The author explains that "The topside one-sidedness of Boston is not what interests me . . . I am dealing throughout with a series of views." Perhaps his secret is simply this: "I have tried, merely, to see what Time as an artist has given us."
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