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RARE 1933 FIRST EDITION WILLIAM LYON PHELPS WITH DJ ON BRONTE TWAIN EMERSON GIFT. In the rare dust jacket. Uncommon in dust jacket. From 1933, with the A on the copyright page indicating a first printing, this is What I Like, by William Lyon Phelps, published by Charles Scribner's Sons, New York. In the rare dust jacket. Sized 8x5 inches, 719 pages. Phelps was the Lampson Professor of English at Yae University, where he had been since 1892. In this book, he tackles appreciations of Mark Twain, Charlotte Bronte, Nathaniel Hawthorne, H.G. Wells, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Jonathan Swift, Edith Wharton, Willa Cather, Dostoyevsky, Frank Stockton, Lewis Carroll, Tolstoy, too many to list. Uncommon in dust jacket.