Philip Salmon & Company Rare Books company logo
Philip Salmon & Company Rare Books
Skip to main content
  • Menu
  • About Us
  • Browse
  • Catalogues
  • Events
  • Contact
Cart
0 items $
Checkout

Item added to cart

View cart & checkout
Continue shopping
Menu

Signed

  • All
  • Bindings
    • Recent Acquisitions
  • Book Arts
    • Recent Acquisitions
    • Artist's Books
    • Books About Books
    • Papermaking
    • Typography
  • Children's Materials
    • Recent Acquisitions
    • 19th Century and Earlier
    • 20th Century and Later
    • Chapbooks
    • Pop Ups and Movables
  • Fine Press
    • Recent Acquisitions
    • The Americas
    • Britain and Ireland
    • Continental Europe
  • Illustration
    • Recent Acquisitions
    • 19th Century and Earlier
    • 20th Century and Later
    • Edward Gorey
    • Original Art
    • Posters and Prints
  • Literature
    • Recent Acquisitions
    • 19th Century and Earlier
    • 20th Century and Later
    • Signed
  • Miniature Books
    • Recent Acquisitions
    • 19th Century and Earlier
    • 20th Century and Later
    • Micro-miniatures
  • Social Justice
    • Recent Acquisitions
Open a larger version of the following image in a popup: The Points of My Compass by E.B. White. Front cover in dust jacket.
Open a larger version of the following image in a popup: The Points of My Compass by E.B. White. Title page.
Open a larger version of the following image in a popup: The Points of My Compass by E.B. White. Interior page.
Open a larger version of the following image in a popup: The Points of My Compass by E.B. White. Front cover and spine.
Open a larger version of the following image in a popup: The Points of My Compass by E.B. White. Inscription by the author.
Open a larger version of the following image in a popup: The Points of My Compass by E.B. White. Full dust jacket over boards.

E. B. White

The Points of My Compass, 1962
NY: Harper & Row
First edition. Inscribed by the author: "Jane and By / With love and a Merry / Christmas from Auntie K and Andy / N. Brooklin, Maine."
260

Further images

  • (View a larger image of thumbnail 1 ) The Points of My Compass by E.B. White. Front cover in dust jacket.
  • (View a larger image of thumbnail 2 ) The Points of My Compass by E.B. White. Title page.
  • (View a larger image of thumbnail 3 ) The Points of My Compass by E.B. White. Interior page.
  • (View a larger image of thumbnail 4 ) The Points of My Compass by E.B. White. Front cover and spine.
  • (View a larger image of thumbnail 5 ) The Points of My Compass by E.B. White. Inscription by the author.
  • (View a larger image of thumbnail 6 ) The Points of My Compass by E.B. White. Full dust jacket over boards.
A collection of eighteen essays, originally published in The New Yorker, in which White describes an America viewed from his armchair. Quarter black cloth with brown paper over boards and...
Read more
A collection of eighteen essays, originally published in The New Yorker, in which White describes an America viewed from his armchair. Quarter black cloth with brown paper over boards and gilt titling to spine. Dampstain to foot of book reaching flyleaves, bumps to corners, else very good in good dust wrapper with mild soiling and creasing and with loss to tail of spine. Former owner's inscription on front flyleaf.
Close full details
Inquire
%3Cdiv%20class%3D%22artist%22%3EE.%20B.%20White%3C/div%3E%3Cdiv%20class%3D%22title_and_year%22%3E%3Cspan%20class%3D%22title_and_year_title%22%3EThe%20Points%20of%20My%20Compass%3C/span%3E%2C%20%3Cspan%20class%3D%22title_and_year_year%22%3E1962%3C/span%3E%3C/div%3E%3Cdiv%20class%3D%22edition_details%22%3ENY%3A%20Harper%20%26amp%3B%20Row%3C/div%3E%3Cdiv%20class%3D%22signed_and_dated%22%3EFirst%20edition.%20Inscribed%20by%20the%20author%3A%20%22Jane%20and%20By%20/%20With%20love%20and%20a%20Merry%20/%20Christmas%20from%20Auntie%20K%20and%20Andy%20/%20N.%20Brooklin%2C%20Maine.%22%3C/div%3E
Share
  • Facebook
  • X
  • Pinterest
  • Tumblr
  • Email
Previous
|
Next
39 
of  52

Terms of Sale

Privacy Policy

Philip Salmon & Company Rare Books

607 Boylston Street, Boston, MA 02116

617-247-2818 | connect@salmonrarebooks.com

Facebook, opens in a new tab.
Instagram, opens in a new tab.
Join the mailing list
Send an email
Manage cookies
Copyright © 2025 Philip Salmon & Company Rare Books
Site by Artlogic

This website uses cookies
This site uses cookies to help make it more useful to you. Please contact us to find out more about our Cookie Policy.

Manage cookies
Accept

Cookie preferences

Check the boxes for the cookie categories you allow our site to use

Cookie options
Required for the website to function and cannot be disabled.
Improve your experience on the website by storing choices you make about how it should function.
Allow us to collect anonymous usage data in order to improve the experience on our website.
Allow us to identify our visitors so that we can offer personalised, targeted marketing.
Save preferences