Good. Some wear and tear to edges of front back covers. Dust cover plastic protected.

Long, Long Ago is a collection of Woollcott's own writings in the style of While Rome Burns. The manuscript was ready and the audience was waiting but as long as Woollcott lived, he wrote; and as long as he wrote, he added to and changed this book.
In broad plan, the book is a generous collection of the pieces Woollcott wrote for a wide variety of uses during the most productive decade of his life.

No one of our time had an eye as quick as Woo11- cott's for a story, or took such pains to track it down. No one relished so fully the flavour of a situation, or found so unerringly the perfect phrases for immortalizing it. No one, finally, had so many friends or wrote of them with such affection, understanding and respect.

Long, Long Ago is a bird's-eye view of the people, the institutions, the facts, and fancies that attracted the attention and sympathy of Alexander Woollcott in the past ten years.

Oliver Wendell Holmes appears twice in these pages. Katharine Cornell here puts on one of her finest performances; George Bernard Shaw is seen in a characteristic episode; Orson Welles and George Gershwin display their temperaments in their own special ways.

Very moving is the history of the man who succeeded Father Damien, of the woman who brought Helen Keller back into the world; most bizarre are the details of the Hall-Mills and Snyder-Gray killings.