East and West: The Discovery of America and Other Poems.
New York: Thomas Y Crowell and Company, 1893.
Price: $500.00
About the item
First edition of the author’s first book. x, 214 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Publisher’s cream cloth, gilt, gilt floral endsheets, t.e.g. Binding soiled, head of spine frayed, previous owner’s inscription on front free endpaper (some offsetting to top of title page). Very good minus.
Item #252177
Fenollosa’s scarce first book, a poetic treatment of what he saw as the coming "synthesis of two continental civilizations … At the end of a great cycle the two halves of the world come together for the final creation of man”.
