THE DESTRUCTIVE ELEMENT; A Study of Modern Writers and Beliefs
London: Jonathan Cape, 1935. First edition. Hardcover. Medium brown cloth with green lettering; 8vo., in tan printed dust jacket. (Not the 1938 reprint.) Early and first book of critcism by Spender: essays on James, Yeats, Eliot, Kafka, Lawrence and others discussed in a "modern" way that is in light of modern beliefs like communism and psycho-analysis. Bottom text block bumped, but a very good copy in a lightly soiled worn at edges price-clipped else very good dust jacket. Very good / very good. Item #11696
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