The Enchaféd Flood: or The Romantic Iconography of the Sea [Jacket title: Three Critical Essays on the Romantic Spirit]

New York: Random House, 1950. First Edition. First Printing. Octavo (19.5cm); green cloth-covered boards with titling stamped in white on spine and front cover; dustjacket; [x],[2],3-154,[4]pp. Front endpaper has embossed bookplate of Robert M. Johnson (1945 -), former publisher of Newsday who later pled guilty for possession of pornography and destroying evidence. Light rubbing to spine ends and board edges, with tape residue to margins of endpapers; Very Good. Dustwrapper, designed by Johannes Troyer, unclipped (priced $2.50), lightly tanned, with trivial surface wear and light shelf-soil; Very Good. Collection of three essays focuses on Coleridge's The Ancient Mariner, Carroll's The Hunting of the Snark, Hopkins' The Wreck of the Deutschland, Verne's Twenty Thousand Leagues under the Sea, and poetry. [88076].