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New York London: W. W. Norton & Company, 2002. First Edition, First Printing. Cloth and boards. 8vo, red quarter cloth over charcoal gray boards with "PG" on front cover, archival mylar-protected pictorial dust jacket (unclipped) depicting a portrait of a woman bearing "The Sword" by Agache, Index, 192 pages. Fine / Fine. Item #9487
ISBN: 9780393051186
Peter Joachim Gay was a German-American historian, educator, and author. He was a Sterling Professor of History at Yale University. This volume contains three very insightful essays by Gay on the powerful emotional distortions used by Dickens, Flaubert, and Mann in three of their important books.
FINE tight, bright, clean copy. Dust jacket is unclipped with traces of edgewear. Previous owner's name blacked out on ffe. No other marks or remaindering.
Price: $14.50