082 ## - DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION NUMBER |
Classification number |
814 Whi |
Item number |
14 |
090 ## - LOCALLY ASSIGNED LC-TYPE CALL NUMBER (OCLC); LOCAL CALL NUMBER (OCLC) |
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13963 |
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13963 |
092 ## - LOCALLY ASSIGNED DEWEY CALL NUMBER (OCLC) |
Classification number |
814 Whi |
100 ## - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME |
Personal name |
White, E. B. frey50 |
245 ## - TITLE STATEMENT |
Title |
The points of my compass |
Remainder of title |
Letters from the east, the west, the north , the south |
Statement of responsibility, etc |
E. B. White |
260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC. (IMPRINT) |
Name of publisher, distributor, etc |
Harper & Row, Publishers |
Date of publication, distribution, etc |
1962 |
Place of publication, distribution, etc |
New York |
300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION |
Extent |
240 p. |
505 ## - FORMATTED CONTENTS NOTE |
Formatted contents note |
Foreword -- Eye of Edna -- Slight sound at evening -- Home-coming -- Bedfellows -- Ring of time -- Coon tree -- Sootfall and fallout -- Shape of the U.N. -- Rock dove -- Report in spring -- Will Strunk -- Good-bye to 48th street -- Report in winter -- Motorcar -- Railroad -- Unity -- Shape of television -- Years of wonder. |
520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC. |
Summary, etc |
A collection of eighteen essays, reports and reminiscences (all but one of which have previously appeared in The New Yorker as a "Letter from the East" or some other compass point). Author writes of coons, and how a swallow builds a nest, and the way a Maine fire department attends a fire, and also of fallout, disarmament and the United Nations. |
600 ## - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME |
Personal name |
White, E. B. -- (Elwyn Brooks) |
Dates associated with a name |
1899-1985 |
Title of a work |
Correspondence |
650 ## - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM |
Topical term or geographic name as entry element |
Authors, American |
General subdivision |
20th century |
Chronological subdivision |
Correspondence |
942 ## - ADDED ENTRY ELEMENTS (KOHA) |
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AJML |
Koha item type |
800 - 899 |
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814 Whi |
961 WL - |
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14 |