"There is no friend as loyal as a book."
— Ernest Hemingway

London: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1970. [Literary Biography] FIRST UK EDITION. Octavo (24 x 17cm), pp.xviii; 472 [2]. With six double-sided black and white photographic plates. Publisher's black cloth with gilt titles to spine. With the glossy black and white photographic dust-jacket, priced at £3.50. A fine copy, but for some closed tears to rear panel of jacket. A writer himself, Stock corresponded with Pound for many years, and later became a professor of English at the University of Toledo. This biography, his best-known work, was described as "as scholarly a book as you'll find" by his colleague John Boening. Item #58191
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