Originally published in 1929, this is the first of three novels by Edmund Wilson, written whilst balancing his ambitions as a novelist against a career in literary criticism. The two tie together here in a depiction of a young man struggling to find his American ideal in a young chorus girl.
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Originally published in 1929, this is the first of three novels by Edmund Wilson, written whilst balancing his ambitions as a novelist against a career in literary criticism. The two tie together here in a depiction of a young man struggling to find his American ideal in a young chorus girl.
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Seller's Description:
Very Good in Good jacket. ND. [1952-WorldCat]. Wilson's novel of literary life in 1920s Greenwich Village. First UK edition, in VG internal order. Smart brick red cloth, very lightly bumped, with bright gilt titling to spine. Good unclipped d/j, lightly worn to edges and faded to spine. 12mo. 268pp.
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Seller's Description:
Good + Book. 12mo-over 6¾-7¾" tall. Wear, aging, soiling to covers. Binding is firm. Toning/light age spotting to text block, with two faint remainder lines across fore edge. Date stamped at top edge of front endpaper; light soiling to endpapers; light dog erring to corners of first few leaves; otherwise interior is age toned, free of markings.
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Near Fine in very good jacket. First edition thus, with a new foreword by Wilson for this edition (first was 1929). Hardcover in navy blue and white paper covered boards. 216 pp. + short biographical sketch of the author. A tight copy, small ownreship signatuef and date front flyleaf, offsetting along the inner hinges and with embrowning to the edges of the text, having been printed on inexpensive paper. In the color illustrated dust jacket, very good, some fade to the spine and light wear to the top edges and tips. A novel of Greenwich Village in the mid-1920s, offered with the true satirists powers of acute observation and understanding. Wilson is concerned mainly with the people in The Village who contributed to the intellectual patterns of the twenties and were stimulated by bthe new ideas of the time.
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Seller's Description:
Near Fine in Very Good jacket. First English edition. 12mo. 268pp. Near fine with small ink owner name on front pastedown and somewhat cocked in very good or better copy price-clipped dust jacket sunned on the spine and and a hint of foxing.
