Inscribed to Georges Brandes
Painted Veils.
[New York: Boni & Liveright, 1920].
Price: $400.00
About the item
First edition, one of 1200 copies signed. Correction in pen on last page. 294, [4] pp. 1 vols. Tall 8vo. Inscribed to Georges Brandes. Blue boards, parchment paper spine. Fine copy in folding cloth box.
Item #16011
Inscribed on the half-title:
"à George Brandes
pour nous autres le plus grand critique psychologue
depuis Taine et Sainte-Beuve. Aut Brandes aut nihil!
Avec hommage!
Son ami James Huneker
New York 1921."
A fine inscription to the great Danish literary critic. Brandes was "schooled in the Hellenistic tradition and the Hegelian speculative didactic method, and only the introduction to the French critics Hippolyte Taine and Charles Sainte-Beuve after 1865 caused a gradual transition from an abstract to a concrete, historical view of literature." - Columbia Dictionary of European Literature.
Huneker was of course America's leading literary and music critic of his day, and Painted Veils, regarded as daring at the time, is still perhaps his most famous work.
