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411 pages. 8.25x5.75x1.50 inches. In Stock.

pp. 250

1st Ed. Good condition book with dust jacket. DJ is complete with little wear - under a removable plastic cover. Book has clean pages with a mild even tone

pp. 250

First editon, first impressions Signed by the author, CONDITION: Very good/fine in likewise price unclipped Dustwrappers Size: 8vo.

Green cloth boards with orange blocked title slip and gilt titles to spine, 225 x 145 mm approx. 278 pp. First edition 1965. Please see our images of the actual book offered for sale for further details and condition. Near Fine/ Very Good (Book- offset browning bands to free end papers, no previous owner name or insc. Dust Jacket - spine a little tanned and some - liquid splash marks. Non price clipped - cover 30s. Supplied in a removable proprietary protective sleeve. No other notable defects to book or jacket).

First impression of the true first edition. ***Very good in dark green cloth-covered boards with gilt titles to orange spine. Small unobtrusive remainder line to bottom of text-block. Edges of boards slightly rubbed. Small surface crease to bottom of front board. Internally very good with no inscriptions. Offsetting to front and rear endpapers. Spine tight. ***In a very good colour printed dustwrapper, that has not been price-clipped, retaining the original publisher's printed price of 30s. net. Edges of dustwrapper slightly rubbed. Spine of dustwrapper discoloured. No tears. Orange colour nice and bright. ***222mm x146mm. 278 pages. ***Contents: Part One: Literature and Philosophy: Introduction: Humanism and the Religious Attitude 1. 'I Glory in the Name of Earwig'; 2. Existential Criticism; 3. The Existential Temper of the Modern Novel; 4. Phenomenology and Literature; 5. 'Six Thousand Feet Above Men and Time' - Remarks on Nietzsche and Kierkegaard. ***Part Two: Individual Writers: 6. The Swamp and the Desert - Notes on Powys and Hemingway; 7. Lindsay - A Voyage to Arcturus; 8. Madach's Tragedy of Man and Mark Twain's Mysterious Stranger; 9. L. H. Myers; 10. The Shaw Problem; 11. The Work of Ayn Rand; 12. Henry Williamson. ***Part Three: The Writer and Society; 13. The Writer and Publicity; 14. The Success Problem; 15. Personal: Influences on my Writing. ***'Colin Wilson was born in Leicester in 1931, the son of a boot and shoe operative. An early interest in science developed in his teens into an interest in literature and philosophy; the result was that in his early twenties he worked simultaneously on his book Ritual in the Dark and the philosophical book The Outsider, both of which were to become bestsellers. Although he came to prominence in 1956, and was labelled an "angry young man", he certainly has almost nothing in common with such contemporaries as John Osborne and Kingsley Amis. His work belongs to the European tradition of existentialism that runs from Goethe to Sartre and Heidegger. This is perhaps the reason that critics in England and America have found his approach somewhat difficult to assimilate, while in France, Germany, Spain and many other foreign countries he is regarded as the foremost writer of his generation. ***He regards his philosophical task as the creation of a bridge between Husserl's phenomenology and Wittgenstein's linguistic "Outsider" series, which attempt to outline a new post-Sartre existentialism. He has written six novels, four plays, a volume on Rasputin and a book on music, Brandy of the Damned.' (Quote taken from the front flap of the dustwrapper). ***First impression of the true first edition - very hard to find in its original dustwrapper in such nice collectable condition. An uncommon title. Of interest to collectors of Colin Wilson first edition titles, existentialism, literature and philosophy. ***For all our books, postage is charged at cost, allowing for packaging: any shipping rates indicated on ABE are an average only: we will reduce the P & P charge where appropriate - please contact us for postal rates for heavier books and sets etc.