The Shock of Recognition: The Development of Literature in the United States Recorded by the Men Who Made It
by Wilson, Edmund
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- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good-/Good
- Seller
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London, London, United Kingdom
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About This Item
W. H. Allen, 1956. The first UK edition of what was the second American edition. 1290 pages. An enormous anthology of American critical essay by the leading American writers of the ninettenth and early twentieth centuries. A very good copy with slight edge wear and slight foxing on spine, in an edge nicked and foxed dust jacket.
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- Bookseller
- David Palmer (GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 556
- Title
- The Shock of Recognition
- Author
- Wilson, Edmund
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good-
- Jacket Condition
- Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- W.H. Allen
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1956
- Keywords
- American Literature
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- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Foxed
- Foxing is the age related browning, or brown-yellowish spots, that can occur to book paper over time. When this aging process...
- Spine
- The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....