The World's Body

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1938. Good +/Good. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1938. First Edition. Octavo (21 cm); 350pp. Boards in blue cloth with gray stamping, wrapped in publisher's price-clipped light blue jacket. Jacket generally scuffed and rubbed with minor chips and tears at margins and minor loss to head of spine and rear joint. Toning to spine and cover margins, and significant darkened damp staining to back panel and back flap. Jacket rear joint brittle at these compromised spots. Board corners and spine ends bumped and rubbed with damp staining to top margins and top corner of the last chunk of pages. Bookshop sticker to first free endsheet. Pages otherwise relatively clean. A Good or better copy in a Good only jacket.

Ransom's first work of literary criticism to "outline a system of doctrine relating to the meaning and psychology of poetry.