Author: Valery, Paul and William Aspenwall Bradley (translator)
Title: Variety: Second Series
Description: New York, Harcourt Brace and Company, 1938. First edition. Hardcover. Green cloth over boards with gilt spine lettering; green and brown dust jacket with white lettering; 5 preliminary leaves, 3-273 pp. red tinted top edge. Presentation copy to Alfred Stieglitz inscribed and signed on ffep by Marsden Hartley. Contents include: Villon and Verlaine -- Concerning Corot -- The position of Baudelaire -- Stendhal -- Remarks on progress -- From "Mediterranean inspirations" -- Spiritual polity -- The balance sheet of the intelligence. "The essays .. have, with one exception, been draws from Variete II, published in France in 1930: Pieces sur Part, published in France in 1934; and Variete III, published in France in 1936. the exception is the first essay in the book, Villon and Verlaine'."--Publisher's note. Translated from the French by William Aspenwall Bradley. VG/G (light age toning but pages are very clean and clear. Dust jacket has overall wear.) .

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