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Charles Scribner's Sons, Published 1931. Hardcover, xiv, 319 pp.; 21 cm. In Very Good condition, no dust jacket. Dark blue cloth-covered boards with publisher's printed cream paper spine label lettered in black. Mild shelf wear and rubbing to the boards, light edge wear, paper spine label clean and bright with mild toning. Binding is tight, pages clean and unmarked, mildly toned. From the library of Charles J. Rosenbloom (1898-1973), the noted Pittsburgh bibliophile whose collection is held at Carnegie Mellon University Libraries and other institutions, with his pictorial bookplate (reproducing Edward Hicks's "Peaceable Kingdom" with the legend "the earth shall be full of the knowledge of the Lord") on the front pastedown. Bookseller sticker for Priscilla Guthrie's Book Shop, William Penn Place, Pittsburgh on the rear pastedown. Edmund Wilson's first and most influential book of literary criticism, examining the Symbolist movement and its development in the work of six major modernist writers: W.B. Yeats, Paul Valery, T.S. Eliot, Marcel Proust, James Joyce, and Gertrude Stein, with concluding chapters on Symbolism's origins and on Axel and Rimbaud as opposing figures of the artistic life. A landmark of twentieth-century literary criticism and number 71 in Cyril Connolly's "The Modern Movement: One Hundred Key Books from England, France and America, 1880-1950." Contents: Symbolism; W.B. Yeats; Paul Valery; T.S. Eliot; Marcel Proust; James Joyce; Gertrude Stein; Axel and Rimbaud; Appendices; Index.