New York: Farrar Strauss and Giroux, 1980. First Edition, First Printing. Octavo with black and red half-cloth blind-stamped boards in black and white pictorial jacket; 204p; 21cm Very good (+); some fading to upper and lower edges of boards; pages bright and clean, tightly bound; jacket is very good with price sticker on front, some rubbing to edges and light toning; now in archival mylar. Hardcover. ISBN: 0374280762
"Susan Sontag's essays have, in one form or another, been commentaries on the relation between moral and aesthetic ideas -- that great question of modern culture, that hardest of hard cases. But, as Sontag has said, she is interested only in hard cases. And they abound in this new collection of essays, the first since Styles of Radical Will in 1969, which brings together her most important critical writing of the last decade." --Jacket copy. cc
