Edmund Wilson — Works by Edmund Wilson

New York and London , Farrar, Straus and Giroux; Macmillan and Co. 1950-1980. Cloth. Three bright volumes of work by Edmund Wilson. Three volumes of work by Edmund Wilson, who was an American writer, literary critic and journalist. Classics and Commercial, A Literary Chronicle of the 1940s contains a selection of sixty-seven pieces from Edmund Wilson's literary articles describing the 1940s. A first American edition copy published in 1950. The Bit Between My Teeth is a selection of forty-four pieces written by Wilson between the years 1950 and 1965. A copy of the second American printing from 1966. The last volume contains Edmund Wilson's journals from the 1930's, moving from the Jazz Age to the Wall Street Crash, with Wilson's reporter's eye capturing the nuances of this period with clarity. First published in America in 1980 with this being a copy of the first UK edition published in the same year. All three are in the original unclipped dust wrappers. In the publisher's original cloth binding. Externally, all are lovely. Internally, firmly bound with bright and clean pages. All are in the original unclipped dust wrapper which are smart. The Thirties dust wrapper has some chipping to the extremities and a small tear to the bottom of the front wrap and some fading to the spine. Some chipping to the head of the spines of the other dust wrappers and some light marks to the wraps. Fine . Ill.: Not Stated. Fine/Very Good.