Edmund Wilson

Axel's Castle: A Study in the Imaginative Literature of 1870-1930 [Inscribed to Berton Roueche]

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1943. Hardcover octavo in printed dust jacket. Blue cloth with yellow lettering to spine. 319pp. Relatively early (1943) printing of literary critici Edmund Wilson's (1895-1972) landmark study of the work of Yeats, Joyce, Eliot, Stein, Proust, and Valery, with this copy inscribed to Berton Roueche (1910-1994), a fellow longtime New Yorker contributor as well as prolific author of medical and mystery works, with much of the TV medical drama House being based on his writings.

Presentation inscription in black ink to front free endpaper reads, "To Berton Roueche / with the best regards / of Edmund Wilson / Jan. 10 1946" Boards soiled and scuffed; with a square tight binding; toning and fray to edges, especially spine extremities including some light material loss to crown; toning to end papers and soiling to top of text; Good only. Fair Dust Jacket is heavily worn and separated into three pieces; was laid-in to this copy before being placed in mylar. Item #2523

Price: $300.00