In Defense of Reason by Winters, Yvor - 1960

Routledge Kegan Paul, 1960. Hardcover. Acceptable. 1960. First Edition. 611 pages. No dust jacket. Green cloth. Moderate tanning to pages with heavier foxing and tanning to pastedowns and endpapers. Pen and pencil inscriptions to front pastedown & endpaper with heavier ink marks, foxing and tanning to text block edges. Both hinges are cracked with exposed netting and cracks to guttering with exposed netting. Binding is very loose. Boards have minor rubbing and heavier bumping to corners. Fair crushing to spine ends as well.

Alan Swallow Press. ** 3RD EDITION ** SOFTCOVER ** CLEAN, STAIN-FREE, UNMARKED ** NOT A LIBRARY BOOK ** COMPLETE AND INTACT ** NEAR FINE OVERALL CONDITION ** Published by Alan Swallow Press, copyright 1947, but later printing (3rd Edition), with 611 pages, thick octavo (8vo). Book has no major defects, shows only brief, occasional, quite minor signs of use (soft, nearly invisible reader crease down the spine, spine darkened a bit from age). Internally Fine condition. The book is clean and stain-free, square and straight, firm and tight in its binding, no pages are loose, torn, or missing. All pages are clean and stain-free, and all text is crisp and legible. There is no writing, underlining, highlighting, or any other such markings in the book. Covers are clean, complete, and intact, perhaps a tad age-toned, no tears, no pieces missing, no edgewear, spine softly creased but not broken. Five-star seller, buy with confidence, professional booksellers for 35 years, selling books online since 1995. B16. .… Read More

Swallow Press, 1987. Paperback. Acceptable. Readable copy. Pages may have considerable notes/highlighting. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed.

Swallow Press/ Morrow, 1947. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition. In green cloth. No jacket..

Alan Swallow, 1947. 3d . Soft cover. Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Large, heavy softcover, heavy light and dark brown wrappers, spine very slightly darkened, 611 pages. Includes: Primitivism and Decadence, Maule's Curse, The Anatomy of Nonsense & The Significance of The Bridge by Hart Crane. Slight wear to long spine edges, slight wear spot at spine top right edge. Near Very Good.

Swallow Press/Morrow, 1947. Hardcover. Good. Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed.

The University Of Denver Press, 1947. Hardcover. Acceptable. 1947. No Edition Remarks. 611 pages. No dust jacket. Green cloth. Slight cracking to hinges, with exposed netting, pages remain attached. Pages are lightly tanned throughout. Small tears and water staining to some page edges, text remains unaffected. Minor dog-eared corners. Previous owner's inscriptions to endpapers. Boards have moderate shelf-wear with bumping to corners and rubbing to surfaces. Light tanning to spine and edges with crushing to spine ends. Staining to rear board.

New York: The Swallow Press, 1947. Cloth/dust jacket Octavo. Hardcover. Very good/fair. blue cloth, blue lettering, dust jacket, 611 pp dj is chipped and torn on the edges Standard shipping (no tracking) / Priority (with tracking) / Custom quote for large or heavy orders.

Alan Swallow, January 1947. Hardcover . Good/Good. Third edition. Previous owner's name, Mild toning. Jacket chipped along edges, rubbed and with sticker removal scar on spine.

Paperback / softback. New. Yvor Winters has here collected, with an introduction, the major critical works--Primitivism and Decadence, Maule's Curse, and The Anatomy of Nonsense--of the period in which he worked out his famous and influential critical position. The works together show an integrated position which illuminates the force and importance of the individual essays.