![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ShiroBooks, independent bookseller, takes pride in accurate descriptions, careful wrapping and safe shipping please contact ShiroBooks PRIOR TO ORDERING if more information, details or photos are needed. Compared to Ortega y Gassets The Revolt of the Masses for its trenchant analysis, this collection contains his most famous work, The Labyrinth of Solitude. Dust Jacket is unclipped (reflecting original USD $3.95 price), mildly age toned, and encased in protective mylar, and shows some light soiling has tape reinforcement / repairing along head, tail and bottom and top edges of rear panel, minor chipping, and thinning from rubbing along hinges and edges - none of which impair legibility of lettering or clarity of artwork or Author image. Cover is clean and bright, with gently bumped corners, joints, head and tail, straight hinges and edges, and boldly legible, crisply distinct lettering and design dyed top edge shows minor fading. Book is securely bound, mildly and uniformly age toned (with darker toning to front pastedown and ffep from what appears to be documents previously laid in), and, except for moderate cocking, free of other blemishes and markings. Stated 1st Printing (US) of the 1961 Grove Press 1st Edition (US) thus, translated by Lysander Kemp. Quote by Octavio Paz, The Labyrinth of Solitude and Other Writings: 'To reduce poetry to its reflections of historical events and movements would be like reducing the poets words to their logical or grammatical connotations.' at This quote is about mexico, poetry, utilitarianism, octavio-paz, history, utility. ![]()
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