8vo. Original navy blue cloth, printed spine label (vertical crease on lower cover); dust jacket (light chipping at corners, some toning to extremities, discrete restoration to horizontal tears on spine panel not affecting letters, few small stains to front panel).

FIRST EDITION, FIRST PRINTING with the Scribner's "A" and seal on copyright. "In Axel's Castle... [Wilson] developed a Marxist critique of several of our key writers (Yeats, Valery, Eliot, Proust, Joyce, Stein, Villiers and Rimbaud) and so inaugurated the Marxist onslaught of the 'thirties..." (Connolly). Ibid., Modern Movement 71.