Author: Connolly, Cyril
Title: The Evening Colonnade
Description: NY and London: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, (1975). (1975). NY and London: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, (1975). (1975). Good. - 8vo, teal cloth (extremities & head & tail of spine faded) titled in silver, in dw (lightly chipped; dw spine faded). xix & 469 pp. (front endpaper darkened with owner's blind stamp; light soiling to fore-edge). Good.

First American edition.

"Here is Connolly on Ezra Pound's silence, the decay of Venice, Baudelaire's Paris, Scott Fitzgerald's dinner at Mrs. Wharton's, the Nineties, the Twenties of his school days, elephants, Alexander Pope, Voltaire, Norman Mailer, Jung, Orwell, the Spanish Civil War, Africa, Provence, and English country homes and the hunting of them. 'The Evening Colonnade' is criticism dedicated to life, and life dedicated to the love and appreciation of the best."--From the dw. Good .

Keywords: LITERATURE; LITERARY CRITICISM; ESSAYS; MEMOIRS; FIRST AMERICAN EDITION; MODERN FIRST EDITION.

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