first edition
1959 · New York
by BROOKS, Van Wyck
New York: E.P. Dutton & Co., Inc, 1959. First Edition. First Printing. Octavo (21.5cm); light gray cloth, blocked and titled in blue and silver on spine; dustjacket; frontispiece, x,296,[6]pp. Offsetting to front endpaper, faint hand-soil to covers, with a touch of dust-soil to upper edge of textblock, and faint foxing to rear endpaper; Very Good+. Dustjacket is price-clipped, with light wear to extremities, staining to base of spine panel, with a small patch of adhesive pull to verso of spine; Very Good+. Biography of the American novelist, playwright, and literary critic. (Inventory #: 45177)