430 pages, 8 plates, cloth, dust jacket, 1st edition, very good. Signature on front endpaper is that of Joyce Curtis, sister to former Maine Governor Curtis. From the Columbia Encyclopedia, 6th edition, "Mary Therese McCarthy, 1912-89, American writer, b. Seattle, grad. Vassar, 1933. As drama critic for the Partisan Review (1937-45), she gained a reputation for wit, intellect, and acerbity. Her novel The Oasis (1949) satirizes left-wing intellectuals, whereas The Group (1963) satirizes an entire generation. Her other novels include Cast a Cold Eye (1950), The Groves of Academe (1952), Birds of America (1971), and Cannibals and Missionaries (1979). Among her volumes of nonfiction are Venice Observed (1956), The Stones of Florence (1959), Vietnam (1967), The Mask of State: Watergate Portraits (1974), Ideas and the Novel (1980), and Occasional Prose (1985). She was married (1938-46) to the critic Edmund Wilson."

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