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A hardcover edition of this book was published in 1990 by HarperCollins Publishers.
WRITINGS FROM THE NEW YORKER. Copyright © 1990 by Joel White and Rebecca Dale. Introduction and Bibliography copyright © 1990 by Rebecca Dale. All rights reserved under International and Pan-American Copyright Conventions. By payment of the required fees, you have been granted the nonexclusive, nontransferable right to access and read the text of this e-book on-screen. No part of this text may be reproduced, transmitted, downloaded, decompiled, reverse-engineered, or stored in or introduced into any information storage and retrieval system, in any form or by any means, whether electronic or mechanical, now known or hereinafter invented, without the express written permission of HarperCollins e-books.
First Harper Perennial edition published 1991; reissued 2006.
The Library of Congress has catalogued the hardcover edition as follows:
White, E. B. (Elwyn Brooks), 1899-1985
Writings from the New Yorker / E. B. White. —1st ed.
p. cm
ISBN 0-06-016517-0
I. New Yorker. II. Title
PS3545.H5187A6 1990
814’.52-dc20 89-46564
ISBN-10: 0-06-092123-4 (pbk.)
ISBN-13: 978-0-06-092123-1 (pbk.)
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