The Liberal Imagination; Essays on Literature and Society

New York: Viking Press, 1950. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. Fine in an about Near Fine dust jacket, unclipped ($3.50), toned at the spine, bumped at the edges with some very shallow chips. Green cloth with gilt lettering on the spine and front board. Square and firmly bound with a green topstain, clean internally. Trilling's influential collection of critical essays about literature and culture, with discussions of Sherwood Anderson, Mark Twain, Kipling, F. Scott Fitzgerald, and even the Kinsey Report.