Mazes: Essays by Hugh Kenner

First edition, first impression.  x, 320pp.  In steel blue cloth-covered boards with gilt lettering on spine.  Yellow endpapers.  8vo.  Top text block edge a little dusted.  Previous owner’s name neatly inked on front free endpaper, else neat, clean, bright and tight throughout.  In a glossy dust jacket, illustrated.   Jacket is very slightly rubbed at spine ends, not price clipped.  A collection of essays on topics as wide-ranging Einstein’s theory of relativity to the remaking of  King Kong film, with a partuclar emphasis on literary and art criticism.