In Defense of Reason

Yvor Winters

Published by The Swallow Press & W. Morrow and Company, 1947

About this Item

Octavo. Blue boards, cream and green-blue dust jacket. No edition information but appears to be first thus. Signed and inscribed to previous owner by author on bottom of ffep. Photo of the author laid in. Includes four essays by Winters: "Primitivism and Decadence," "Maule's Curse," "The Anatomy of Nonsense," and "The Significance of The Bridge by Hart Crane, Or What Are We To Think of Professor X?" Dust jacket is chipped along top and bottom edges. Wear to head and tail of spine. Previous owner name and some glue residue on ffep; previous owner bookplate on pastedown. Binding tight, text clean and unmarked. A remarkable copy of this collection by American literary critic and poet Yvor Winters (1900-1968).

Seller Inventory # 6265

Bibliographic Details

• Title: In Defense of Reason
• Publisher: The Swallow Press & W. Morrow and Company
• Publication Date: 1947
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st Edition.
• Condition: Very Good
• Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good
• Signed: Signed by Author(s)
• Seller catalogs:
  • Literary Criticism