Books of the Century: A Hundred Years of Authors, Ideas and Literature

First edition. 4to., xxiv, 647 pp., illus., index. Quarter-bound blue buckram over blue paper-covered boards, stamped in silver to spine. Stated First Edition to copyright page with numberline sequence ending with a '2,' as per Random House practice.

An anthology of reviews, essays, interviews, letters, and commentary from The New York Times Book Review, together with the full Editors' Choices of best books of the year since that feature started in 1972. The New York Times Book Review, America's oldest book-review supplement, began publication in 1896 each Saturday. In 1911 it began appearing on Sundays, establishing a long-cherished end-of-weekend ritual. A wonderful bedside book.