Wilson, Edmund. - Axel's castle. A study of the imaginative literature of 1870 - 1930. [Third edition].

New York & London, C. Scribner's Sons, 1934. 319 pp. Orig. publisher's hardcover binding (blue cloth, white letterpiece on the spine), d./j. 8vo. - Dust jacket worn along the edges; dust jacket with ligt waterstain along the top edge; owner's name on first free endpaper.Rare third edition of Axel's castle, Edmund Wilson's first book of literary criticism. With the rare dust jacket. The first edition was published in 1931. Worldcat also lists 1932 edition. - - A landmark book that explores the evolution of the French Symbolist movement and considers its influence on six major twentieth-century writers: William Butler Yeats, Paul Valéry, T. S. Eliot, Marcel Proust, James Joyce, and Gertrude Stein. The appendices include Tristan Tzara's Memoirs of Dadaism and excerpts from Joyce's then-untitled forthcoming novel Finnegans Wake.

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