THE NECESSARY ANGEL: ESSAYS ON REALITY AND THE IMAGINATION
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1951. First Edition. Item #6805
First Printing, one of 3,000 copies. Octavo (22cm); green cloth, with titles stamped in gilt on spine, and decorative elements embossed onto front cover; green topstain; dustjacket; xii,176,[2]pp. Some sunnng and mottling to spine, endpapers lightly foxed, with rough erasure to an old owner's name on front endpaper; contents clean; Very Good. Dustjacket is unclipped (priced $3.00), sunned at spine and rear panel, lightly edgeworn, showing mild dust-soil, a few tiny tears and creases, and a handful of soiled spots to rear panel; Very Good+. The Pulitzer Prize-winning author's first collection of prose. Edelstein A17.a.1.
Price: $150.00