THE MAN BEHIND THE BOOK: ESSAYS IN UNDERSTANDING
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1929. First Edition. A substantial volume of literary essays on the personality and works of Chaucer, Poe, Edgar Lee Masters, Whitman, Byron, Hazlitt, Shelley, Carlyle, Meredith, and Hardy, while touching on more recent authors like Thornton Wilder and Willa Cather. Scarce in dustjacket. Item #7319
First Printing. Octavo (19.75cm); navy blue cloth, with titling and decorations stamped in gilt, light blue, and purple on spine and front cover; dustjacket; xvi,[2],3-357,[3]pp, with tissue-guarded portrait frontispiece and seven plates. Tasteful decorative bookplate of Edward Dean Lyman on front pastedown. Light wear to base of spine, subtle offsetting to endpapers, else a fresh, very Near Fine copy, with the decorative elements entirely unrubbed. Dustjacket is unclipped (priced $2.50), gently spine-sunned, showing modest wear, several small nicks, short tears, and attendant creases; Very Good+.
Price: $275.00