Classics and Commercials: A Literary Chronicle of the Forties

New York: Farrar, Straus & Co, 1950. First Edition. First Printing. Octavo (19cm); blue cloth covered boards titled in gilt on the spine; blue topstain; dustjacket; 534pp. Modest shelf-wear, lightly faded topstain, with trace soil to covers and edges of textblock; Very Good. Dustwrapper, unclipped (priced $5.00), with modest shelf-wear and -soil, 1.5" tear to front lower spine fold, two 1" tears to front lower flap fold and rear lower spine fold, with tiny chips and tears to extremities; Very Good.

"This volume contains a selection of sixty-seven pieces from Edmund Wilson's literary articles during the decade 1940-49...and includes the best of his work in the Nation, the New Republic, The New Yorker and other periodicals" (from the dustjacket). RAMSEY, p.31.