Pretexts : Reflections on Literature and Morality

Very Good ; Good Jacket. 1959 Greenwich Editions, Meridian Books, Inc. Selected, edited, and introduced by Justin O'Brien. First Edition thus. "First Published by Meridian Books 1959; First Printing 1959" on verso. NOT ex-library. Hardcover has black cloth-covered boards with white cloth-covered spine and black and gold spine lettering. Gild initials "A.G." on front cover. Top page edges are black. Yellow endpapers illustrated with black facsimile manuscript. Binding tight. Hinges NOT cracked. Spine ends very lightly bumped. Edges of covers very lightly tanned. Pages very lightly and uniformly tanned but still supple. Pages clean and unmarked. 352 pages. Dust jacket has light surface and edge wear, with chips at the corners and spine ends; half-inch tear at the top of the front panel. Dust jacket is NOT price clipped; jacket spine lightly sunned. Essays translated from the original French texts by Angelo P. Bertocci, Jeffrey J. Carre, Justin O'Brien, and Blanche A. Price. Carefully packed, shipped in a box.…