Sweet Violence: The Idea of the Tragic

First US edition, first printing.  xviii, 328pp.  Black cloth-covered boards with gilt lettering on the spine.  Black endpapers.  Slight shadowing to text block edges.  Previous owner’s details neatly inked on the half title page else volume is neat, clean, bright and tight throughout.  In its original illustrated and laminated dust wrapper, very slightly bumped at extreme edges.  Dust wrapper now protected in an archival-quality Mylar sleeve, fitted without the use of tape or adhesives.  The Mylar wrapper itself is a little shelf worn.