Race: A Study in Superstition.
Revised, with a new Preface.
New York: Harper & Row, 1965 Stock Code: 61792
Second edition, revised. Inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper "For Lionel & Diana, with ever affectionate thoughts, this dull old book that faithfully reflects the dull old friend who sends it, Jacques. Dec 22/64". Literary critic Lionel Trilling (1905-75) worked at Columbia during the same period as Barzun, and for thirty years the two jointly taught the Colloquium on Important Books, counting among their students Alan Ginsberg, Jack Kerouac, and Louis Menand. A lovely and significant presentation copy.
Description
Octavo. Original brown cloth, titles to spine gilt With the dust jacket.
Condition
An excellent copy in the lightly rubbed and marked jacket.
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