After Lost Generation Critical Study, Signed (4 results)

Paperback. Condition: Good. Reissue Edition; First Printing. The Arbor House Library Of Contemporary Americana; 263 pages; signed dedication from author John Aldridge on the half-title page. Foxing speckles on the top exterior edge of textblock and on the spine joints. Light yellowing on pages. Good condition otherwise. No other noteworthy defects. No markings on text pages. ; - Your satisfaction is our priority. We offer free returns and respond promptly to all inquiries. Your item will be packaged with care and ship on the same or next business day. Buy with confidence.

Softcover. Condition: Near Fine. First Arbor House edition. Originally published by McGraw in 1951. Introduction by Norman Mailer. Trade paperback. Spine slightly cocked, near fine. Inscribed to fellow author Nicholas Delbanco and his wife Elena by the author. Discusses the works of postwar writers of the Forties, such as Norman Mailer, John Horne Burns, Truman Capote, Paul Bowles, Alfred Hayes and others; along with three writers of the Twenties: Ernest Hemingway, John Dos Passos, and F. Scott Fitzgerald.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Nearly Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. The esteemed writer and literary critic's first book, a critical evaluation of post-war American writers, Aldrige considers Hemingway, Fitzgerald and Dos Passos as writers influenced by WWI, and goes on to include Norman Mailer, Irwin Shaw, Truman Capote, Gore Vidal, and Paul Bowles, among others, as writers influenced by WWII. About fine in a near fine dw clipped on all four corners and moderately faded on the spine. SIGNED by Aldridge on the front end paper. A TLS from Aldridge to noted Fitzgerald scholar Professor Arthur Mizener, dated December 22, 1950, is laid in. Nice association. Signed by Author(s).

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First edition. Octavo. 263pp. A bit of offsetting on a couple facing pages of text from clippings, else near fine in a modestly spine-sunned, and internally repaired very good dust jacket. Nicely Inscribed by the critic in 1952. Discusses the works of postwar writers of the Forties, such as Norman Mailer, John Horne Burns, Truman Capote, Paul Bowles, Alfred Hayes and others, along with three writers of the Twenties: Ernest Hemingway, John Dos Passos, and F. Scott Fitzgerald.