Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins Press, 1959. First edition. Viii, 302pp; index. Blue cloth; dust jacket. Mild toning to textblock edges, else fine in an unclipped jacket with a short closed tear at head of spine, mild wear to spine ends.
First English-language edition of this seminal work by Belgian literary scholar critic Georges Poulet (1902-1991); an analysis, literary in its own right, of the themes of time and space in the works of Joubert, Balzac, Hugo, Mallarmé, et al.; the second of four volumes in Poulet's Studies in Human Time. Translated by Elliott Coleman. Uncommon in jacket.
