THE SHORES OF LIGHT, A LITERARY CHRONICLE OF THE TWENTIES AND THIRTIES by Wilson, Edmund - 1952

NY: Farrar, Straus & Young, 1952. 814pp. Dust jacket not price clipped. Dust jacket missing edge pieces from back top edge, front top edge and tips. Photos on request. . Hardcover. Fine-/Fair. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall.

Farrar, Straus and Young, 1952 814 pp, Literary criticism of the 1920's and 1930's. Text is clean, tight and unmarked. Red cloth boards are a little sunned along spine, otherwise undamaged.. Cloth. Very Good/No Jacket.

Farrar Straus & Young. Very Good+ with no dust jacket. 1952. Hardcover. 0374262721 . ; Red cloth cover has very light wear to corners but clean, bright, and overall in very good+ condition. Boards and spine are straight. Binding is tight. Former owner's last name on front end sheet. Pages are clean and pristine. ; 7.5 X 4.7 X 1.8 inches; 814 pages .

New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1952. 3 volumes, sm 8vo; together wtih "Classics and Commercials" and "The Bit Between my Teeth"; A near fine set in original beige cloth, lettered in gilt on spine, in a red publisher's slipcase (lightly soiled) with paper label on upper cover.

New York: Farrar, Straus and Young, Inc., 1952. Book. Near Fine. Cloth. First Edition. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Copyright 1952, no publication date. Assumed first edition, later printing. Red cloth boards, red topstaining. 814 pp. Edgewear to dustjacket with a few short tears, internally repaired where possible. In protective mylar cover. A very nice clean copy in near fine condition with a very good plus dustjacket..

N.Y. Farrar, Straus & Young., 1952.. Or.cl. Dustjacket. xii,814pp. Fine. 1st ed. A panorama of literary life at a time when the American arts were undergoing a great revival.

New York: Farrar, Straus and Young, 1952. First edition. pp. xii, 814. 8vo. Spine is a bit dull, slightly over-opened at title page (mended), else a very good copy in dust jacket; jacket has light wear and few thin chips to extremities, small, faint stain at base of spine (primarily visible on verso), else very good. First edition. pp. xii, 814. 8vo. INSCRIBED BY EDMUND WILSON, IN YEAR OF PUBLICATION TO FRIEND HELEN MUCHNIC. Inscribed, and signed, by Edmund Wilson, to close friend, Helen Muchnic, in year of publication: "To Helen Muchnic, with love from Edmund Wilson... [followed by five more words]. Princeton, Nov. 16, 1952" (on front flyleaf). Helen Muchnic maintained a close friendship with Edmund Wilson; they visited and corresponded regularly, over the course of more than thirty years. Contains chapters devoted to T. S. Eliot ("T. S. Eliot and the Church of England"), Ernest Hemingway, F. Scott Fitzgerald, E. E. Cummings, H. L. Mencken, John Dos Passos, Gertrude Stein, Ezra Pound, Sherwood… Read More