Allegories of Reading: Figural Language in Rousseau, Nietzsche, Rilke, and Proust

by Paul de Man, Friedrich Nietzsche Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Rainer

$75 · Offered by Lorne Bair Rare Books

First edition

New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 1979. First Edition. Octavo 23.5cm ; maroon cloth-covered boards with titling stamped in silver on spine; dustjacket; 305pp. From the library of noted poet, translator, and anthropologist Nathaniel Tarn 1928-2024 with his pictorial bookplate to front pastedown, and his occasional pencilled notes. Light shelf-wear and -soil; Very Good+. Dustwrapper,

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