Nov 18, 2014 - Sale 2366

Sale 2366 - Lot 266

Price Realized: $ 750
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 800 - $ 1,200
WILSON, EDMUND. Axel's Castle. 8vo, publisher's blue cloth, spine faded slightly, few inconspicuous marks, printed paper spine label, tanned slightly; dust jacket, short chips to spine panel ends and corners, 3-inch closed tear along front flap fold, minor finger-soiling, short tear with paper loss (including price) to outer corner of front flap; rear hinge cracked, endpapers toned; pair of bookplates on front pastedown. New York: Scribner's, 1931

Additional Details

first edition, presentation copy, inscribed on front free endpaper: "To George and Rachel Shipman / from (not a relation) / Edmund Wilson / Sept. 21, 1936." Rachel Shipman's ownership signature just above. Wilson's important critical study of Modernist icons Yeats, Joyce, Eliot, Stein, Proust and Valery. Signed copies uncommon. Connolly 71.