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Acceptable. Acceptable condition. No Dust Jacket Former Library book. Hardcover edition. A readable, intact copy that may have noticeable tears and wear to the spine. All pages of text are present, but they may include extensive notes and highlighting or be heavily stained. Includes reading copy only books.
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Very Good in Very Good jacket. First edition. Small octavo. 576pp. Binding faintly spotted with a tiny nick on the topedge of the rear cover and a bit of foxing on the endleaves, very good or a bit better in a moderately worn, very good dust jacket with a bit of wear and soil.
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Near Fine in Near Fine jacket. First edition. Small octavo. 576pp. Top edge is lightly foxed, spine tail lightly sunned, else a near fine copy in near fine dust jacket with short nicks on spine ends and corners, spine title sunned.
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Fair in fair jacket. 576 pages. 20 cm. Occasional footnotes. DJ worn, torn, soiled, and chipped. Front hinge weak and restrengthened with glue. From Wikipedia: "Edmund Wilson (May 8, 1895 June 12, 1972) was an American writer, literary and social critic, and man of letters. Wilson was the managing editor of Vanity Fair in 1920 and 1921, and later served as associate editor of The New Republic and as a book reviewer for The New Yorker and The New York Review of Books. He wrote plays, poems, and novels, but his greatest influence was literary criticism. In his book, To the Finland Station (1940), Wilson studied the course of European socialism, from the 1824 discovery by Jules Michelet of the ideas of Vico culminating in the 1917 arrival of Vladimir Lenin at the Finland Station of Saint Petersburg to lead the Bolsheviks in the Russian Revolution. Wilson was interested in modern culture as a whole, and many of his writings go beyond the realm of pure literary criticism." During a twelve-month period in 1930 and 1931, Edmund Wilson wrote a series of lengthy articles which he then collected in a book called American Jitters: A Year of the Slump. The resulting chronicle was hailed by the New York Times as "the best reporting that the period of depression has brought forth in the United States, " and forms the heart of the present volume. In prose that is by turns dramatic and naturalistic, inflammatory and evocative, satirical and droll, Wilson painted an unforgettable portrait of a time when "the whole structure of American society seemed actually to be going to pieces." The American Earthquake bookends this chronicle with a collection of Wilson's non-literary articles-including criticism, reportage, and some fiction-from the years of "The Follies, " 1923-1928, and the dawn of the New Deal, 1932-1934. During this period, Wilson had grown from a little-known journalist to one of the most important American literary and social critics of the century. The American Earthquake amply conveys the astonishing breadth of Wilson's talent, provides an unparalleled vision of one of the most troubling periods in American history, and, perhaps inadvertently, offers a self-portrait comparable to The Education of Henry Adams.
