AXEL'S CASTLE, A STUDY IN THE IMAGINATIVE LITERATURE OF 1870-1930 by Wilson, Edmund - 1954

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1932. Hardcover. Fine/Very Good. First edition, later printing. Octavo. xiv, 319pp. A fine, bright blue boards with printed spine label in very good later printing dust jacket that is toned at the perimeter, with moderate edgewear and spot on the front board from a removed price sticker. Contains chapters on William Butler Yeats, T.S. Eliot, James Joyce, Gertrude Stein, Marcel Proust, and Paul Valery. Uncommon in jacket.

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1948. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Later printing. Octavo. 319pp. Mint green cloth black stamped spine title. Endpapers are modestly tanned, spine sunned, very good in a very good modestly age-toned dust jacket with edges rubbed. Contains chapters on W.B. Yeats, T.S. Eliot, James Joyce, Gertrude Stein, Marcel Proust, and Paul Valery.

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1931. Hardcover. Very Good. First edition. Octavo. 319pp. Black cloth with printed paper spine label. Spine label is rubbed and quite tanned, with tiny nick, rubbed at extremities of corners, else a very good copy lacking the dust jacket. Cyril Connolly's 'The Modern Movement: One Hundred Key Books from England, France and America, 1880-1950,' No. 71. Bibliographer Julian Sawyer's copy, with his bookplate on front pastedown (stating "The Gertrude Stein Collection of Julian Sawyer". Julian Sawyer is the author of ''Gertrude Stein. A Bibliiography' (published in 1940 by Arrow Books). Some chapters first serialized in magazines with chapters on W.B. Yeats, T.S. Eliot, James Joyce, Gertrude Stein, Marcel Proust and Paul Valery.