Wilson, Edmund

Europe Without Baedeker Sketches Among the Ruins of Italy, Greece and England

Hardcover, New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1966. First Edition. Very Good in Good dust jacket. With notes from a diary of 1963-64: Paris, Rome, Budapest. Book plate of noted collector Rolland Comstock on front paste-down. "The first section of this book, consisting of sixteen chapters and three appendices, was first published in 1947 and has been out of print for many years. The second section...appears here in book form for the first time. The book includes an interview with Santayana, whom the author visited in Rome at the end of the Second World War, and essays on the literature of Malraux, Silone, Lampedusa and Christiane Rochefort..." - from the dust jacket. Ships same or next business day. Previous owner's name in ink on the front free endpaper. Very light foxing on front free endpaper, back paste-down, and along fore-edge of text block, head of spine has a stain and head edge of boards are rubbed. Dust jacket has edge and shelf wear, chinps and tears heaviest at the head of spin and corners. ; 12mo 7" - 7½" tall; 467 pages. [Item #3815]

Price: $20.00