EUROPE WITHOUT BAEDEKER. Sketches Among the Ruins of Italy, Greece & England

Garden City, New York: Doubleday & Company, 1947. First edition. pp. xii, 427. Red cloth.Spine and top edge are moderately faded, else a very good copy in very good dust jacket; light wear and fading on jacket spine, and a few short creased tears to extremities. First edition. pp. xii, 427. Inscribed, and signed, by Edmund Wilson, to close friend, Helen Muchnic, in year of publication: "To Helen, with love from E.W. Oct. 8, 1947. New York" (on front flyleaf). [Helen Muchnic maintained a close friendship with Edmund Wilson; they visited and corresponded regularly, over the course of more than thirty years].