Descripción:
Garden City, NY: Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1953. 1st/1st. VG/G. Stated First Edition. First Printing. The book is tight and square with solid hinges and clean boards. Crinkle to spine head. Textblock is clean with no writing bookplate or markings and not BCE, ex-library, or remaindered. Pages lightly age-toned. Dust jacket is unclipped ($3.00) and good. Chipping to spine and upper back panel, lightly scuffed and an inch and half-closed rear to top front panel see photos). Protected in a new Brodart Mylar cover. A varied and colorful collection of essays. From Kant to Raymond Chandler; from the legend of Zurbaran to the art of the detective story; from Burke to Augustus Hare, W. Somerset Maugham brings his inimitable mastery of the incisive character sketch to the genre of literary criticism.