The Grotesque in Art and Literature

Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1963. Very Good/Very Good. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1963. First English-language Edition. Octavo (23.5cm); illustrated dust jacket with $6.95 price intact; boards in sage cloth with maroon lettering to spine; 224pp, illus. Jacket lightly shelfworn with a couple shallow tears along edges and waterspotting to spine, more visible to verso; some general smudging and toning to surface. Boards lightly bumped at corners and spine ends. Spine very slightly cocked at tail. Endpapers lightly toned from contact with jacket flaps. Binding is sound and pages unmarked. Not ex-library.

First English-language edition of Kayser's examination of the Grotesque in the works of artists and authors such as Bosch, Goya, Hugo, Poe, Kafka, Dali, and others.