Twentieth Century Authors - First Supplement : A Biographical Dictionary of Modern Literature
x, 1142p, with numerous small-sized black and white photographs. Black cloth-covered boards, gilt titles on spine. Considerable wear to covers and spine. Spine ends rubbed gently as are corners. Lender's sheet on front paste down. Evidence of previous label on front free end paper. Slightly tanned text block edges. A supplement to the 1942 'Twentieth Century Authors', it brings some of the original biographies up to date and includes 700 new biographies, mostly of authors who came to prominence between the mid 1940s and mid 1950s.
