America in Modern Italian Literature by Heiney, Donald - (1964)

New Brunswick, New Jersey, USA: Rutgers University Press, 1964. BX3 - A hard cover first edition book in very good- condition with a dust jacket in good+ condition. A tight, clean, sound copy in light yellow cloth covered boards with black and red lettering on the spine with minor overall wear plus some light soiling on the front. The dust jacket is in good+ condition and is intact but has significant edge wear and chipping mainly on the top and bottom spine edges and right corners plus some edge wear along the top and bottom edges plus three small (about 0.25") closed tears on the front bottom edge and 3 on the back at the top left and top and bottom right corners plus a chunk (about 0.25"x0.75") missing at the back top right corner plus a triangular chunk (about 0.25"x0.5") missing at the top left corner. A very readable examination of how modern Italian novels, poems and plays deal with America and Americans. Overall it is a definitive study of the Italian myth of America… Read More

Rutgers University Press, January 1964. Hardcover. Good/Fair.

New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 1964. hardcover. Book: Very Good/Dj: Very Good. 8vo.. 278 pp. 5 3/4 x 8 1/2. Beige cloth covered boards, stamped black on spine. Green, white and orange dj. Mild overall wear, dj is price clipped.

New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press. Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket. 1964. Hardcover. First edition. About fine in a near fine (minor edge wear), price clipped dust jacket. .

Rutgers, 1964. Book. Near Fine. Hardcover. 1st Edition. Near fine, price-clipped jacket. .

New Brunswick, New Jersey: Rutgers University Press, 1964. Bright, clean, square, tight copy. Sharp corners. Bookplate neatly removed from pastedown endpaper leaving a faint shadow. No remainder mark. No owner's name. Illustrated with 13 photos. "Definitive study of the Italian myth of America but also a detailed examination of the manner in which certain modern Italian writers express this myth in their work... Mr. Heiney believes that America and the myth of America play a larger part in modern Italian literature than the image of any other foreign culture, and he has written a lively critical analysis of that myth as it is reflected in modern Italian novels, poems, and plays dealing with America and Americans." Chapter notes. Bibliography. Index. Original yellow cloth. Keywords: Literary criticism . First Printing of the First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good condition. 8vo. viii, 278pp . Great Packaging, Fast Shipping.

New Brunswick: Rutger University Press,, 1964.. First edition.. Near fine in near fine price-clipped dust jacket.

New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press. 1964. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. Very Good in a Good dust jacket. A few chips and tears to jacket. Discoloration to jacket. ; ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall .