first edition Hardcover
1968 · Philadelphia
by Avery, George C.
Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1968. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Near fine. The first major study in English of Swiss novelist Robert Walser (1878-1956), one of the most important European writers of the modernist period and an acknowledged influence on Franz Kafka. 278 p. with a frontispiece portait and eight plates. Octavo. Original green cloth binding, with gilt titles. A fine, unread copy in a near fine, price-clipped dust jacket. (Inventory #: 72437)