AXEL'S CASTLE: A STUDY IN THE IMAGINATIVE LITERATURE OF 1870-1930
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1931. First Edition, First Printing. Octavo; 319 pages; VG/none; full navy cloth binding with printed paper label to spine; mild shelfwear to covers, including scuffing, bumping, fraying to head of spine, and a few small dents; textblock clean, with faded top edge dye and deckled fore edge; small writing in pencil to front pastedown; shelved Literary Criticism.
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Shelved Dupont Bookstore
Price: $50
NOTES
"Axel's Castle" is about the symbolist movement in literature, and features chapters on W. B. Yeats, Paul Valéry, T. S. Eliot, Marcel Proust, James Joyce, Gertrude Stein, Auguste Villiers de l'Isle-Adam, and Arthur Rimbaud. Appendix I features three excerpts from Joyce's then-untitled upcoming novel that would become "Finnegans Wake" (1939); Appendix II is Tristan Tzara's "Memoirs of Dadaism" (1922); a note from Wilson cites a "partial translation" published in Vanity Fair from whom he has received permission to reprint (304).