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Huntington Library, San Marino, California, Published date: 1980. Softcover, printed paper wrappers; staple bound; 24 pp; 24 cm. Illustrated throughout with black and white photographic illustrations and facsimiles of manuscripts, annotated proofs, and historical images from the Huntington Library collections.
In very good condition. Original bright yellow pictorial paper covers clean and unfaded with minimal surface handling; binding sound. Interior pages clean and unmarked. Illustrated literary essay by James Thorpe examining four major figures of twentieth-century literature - William Butler Yeats, James Joyce, Wallace Stevens, and Conrad Aiken - presented as innovators who reshaped modern literary consciousness. Combines critical commentary with visual documentation, including reproduced manuscript pages, early printed texts, and archival photographs, highlighting the material and intellectual contexts of modernist writing.