Description
Hardcover. First American Edition. Very Good minus in a Good dust jacket. Octavo, ~5 3/4 x 8 ½”, 372 pp. Cream boards over green quarter-cloth, stamped in red and green, bumped at top corners. Binding sound. Dust jacket good with moderate edgewear and a small discoloration at front upper left. DJ cover price $4.50 intact. Translated from the Italian by Isabel Quigly; the original won the Premio Strega in 1957.
This is an association copy from the library of literary critic and Dostoevsky scholar Joseph Frank (1918-2013), with the ownership signature of critic and poet R.P. Blackmur (1904-1965), who taught at Princeton for 25 years without a college degree before the disease of credentialism swept all before it, and who founded the Gauss Seminars in 1949, which would be continued by Frank after Blackmur’s death. Frank served as R.P. Blackmur’s literary executor, arranging for acquisitions by Princeton University, editing posthumous essay collections, and championing the older critic’s work for a new audience.
