The Diabolical Principle and The Dithyrambic Spectator

London: Chat, 1931. 1st Edition. Hardcover. VG-. Ownership copy of publisher and poet James Laughlin (1914-1997), founder of New Directions, which published modernist poets like William Carlos Williams, Ezra Pound, Elizabeth Bishop, Henry Miller, Marianne Moore, Wallace Stevens, and E. E. Cummings. This copy was owned by Laughlin as a strudent at Harvard with his ownership stamp lower right ffe: James Laughlin Eliot House Cambridge Mass> Solid copy, lacking dustjacket, Orange cloth lightly stained (not affecting internals), spine sunned.