Eros the Bittersweet by Anne Carson / First Edition Hardcover / Fine Copy

Description

Eros the Bittersweet
Author
: Carson, Anne
Title
: Eros the Bittersweet: An Essay
Publication
: Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1986
Edition
: First edition
Description
: First edition of the first book by the Canadian poet, essayist, and classicist, adapted from her 1981 doctoral thesis at the University of Toronto: a literary examination of the ancient Greek concept of eros as embodying both pleasure and pain.
Octavo (8.75 x 5.75 in.); xii +189pp., indexed; black cloth boards, in dust jacket. Very slight bumps to top corners, a tiny smudge of soiling to upper fore-edge of textblock, else fine in a very near fine jacket with a vertical crease to front flap. A lovely copy of an increasingly uncommon book by the author of "Autobiography of Red," "Men in the Off Hours," "Nox," and others.
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