Hyman, Stanley Edgar

THE PROMISED END: ESSAYS AND REVIEWS, 1942-1962 [Signed]

Cleveland; New York: The World Publishing Company, 1963. First Edition. Octavo, 380, [4] pages. In Very Good plus condition with a Very Good dust jacket. In full dark gray cloth binding with black and orange lettering. Jacket is pink, red, and orange, with black lettering, wrapped in a new archival mylar sleeve. Jacket shows mild scuffing on covers and along spine, with some rubbing and cracking along joints. Price uncut: "$6.50". Boards show very light shelving wear along edges. Light wrinkling to cloth on bottom half of spine. Text block is lightly age toned along edges; sunning to orange-dyed top edge. Interior clean. Inscribed by Hyman to Susan Sheehan on front flyleaf: "For Susan- / In friendship / Stanley / October 1963"

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Stanley Edgar Hyman was a notable writer, literary critic, and academic, best known for his lasting influence on literary critical theory. He was a longtime staff writer at the New Yorker, like Susan Sheehan, to whom this book is inscribed.

Second Story Books is honored to offer this item from the personal collection of Neil and Susan Sheehan. Neil Sheehan (1936–2021) and Susan Sheehan (born 1937) were a distinguished husband-and-wife team whose careers helped define American literary journalism in the second half of the twentieth century. Neil Sheehan, a Pulitzer Prize–winning reporter for The New York Times, is best known for his role in bringing the Pentagon Papers to public attention and for his landmark book "A Bright Shining Lie", while Susan Sheehan built a parallel reputation as a leading voice at The New Yorker, crafting deeply reported narrative nonfiction on subjects ranging from mental health to social institutions, earning her own Pulitzer Prize in 1983. Their longstanding ties to major publications, particularly The New Yorker, placed them at the center of an influential cultural and intellectual network, and the books from their library carry added provenance through this close connection to the magazine’s editorial and artistic community.