James Huneker — Egoists: A Book of Supermen

New York, Charles Scribner's Son, 1918. Leather. A collection of critical essays examining the attitudes of key figures in the philosophy of egoism, in a lovely half morocco binding. A delightfully bound collection of essays relating to the philosophical egoists, from American art, book, music and theatre critic James Huneker.Originally published in periodicals including Scribner's Magazine, the Atlantic Monthly and the New York Times, in his essays Huneker discusses Stendhal and his sentimentality, Flaubert's 'Madame Bovary' and the pessimism of Huysmans, alongside discussions of Ibsen, Nietzsche, Baudelaire and Stirner.With a portrait frontispiece of Stendhal, and the illustrated bookplate of Roy McWilliams to the front pastedown. In a half morocco binding, with cloth covered boards. Light rubbing to back strip tail. Spotting to fore edge of text block. Bookplate to front pastedown. Internally, firmly bound. Pages clean and bright. Very Good Indeed . Ill.: None. Very Good Indeed .