Description: The Oblong Blur and Other Odysseys by Philip Hamburger published by Farrar, Straus and Company, 1949 First Edition, First Printing Hardcover in good used condition,chipping, tearing and edge wear to jacket (pieces separated but presents well in mylar cover),toning throughout interior, text is unmarked *** Signed by the author *** "This book is a first collection of the extraordinary reportorial writings of Philip Hamburger. For the last ten years, as a member of The New Yorker's staff, Mr. Hamburger has been making his perceptive way about the city and the world outside, assembling impressions and recording them with style, precision, wit, and fire. Among the stories here are those in which he describes his encounters, some of them incorporeal, with two mayors of New York (LaGuardia and O'Dwyer), three dictators (Hitler, Mussolini, and Peron), fourteen radio personages (including Gabriel Heatter), one sultan (the Sultan of West Borneo), and one animal-struck lady (a lady who lives with a fawn). Elsehwere in the book are his throughly unorthodox reports on Italy, Yugoslavia and Argentina...."
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Topic: Books
Edition: First Edition
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
Book Title: The Oblong Blur
Author: Philip Hamburger
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Company
Genre: Adventure, Art & Culture, Biographies & True Stories, Business, Economics & Industry, Economics, Finance, Historical, History, Humor, Law, Life Sciences, Mind, Body & Spirit, Modern & Contemporary, Philosophy, Psychology & Help, Sociology, Travel, World literature & Classics
