SAID, Edward W. Culture and Imperialism.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1993.
 
8vo.; in printed grey wrappers. Minor staining and rubbing to covers.
 
Publishers’ uncorrected proofs of one of Said’s most important books, a collection of essays which expands on the ideas from Orientalism (1978). From the inside cover: “Probing masterpieces of the Western tradition—including Jane Austen’s Mansfield Park, Conrad’s Heart of Darkness, Verdi’s Aïda, and Camus’s The Stranger—Said brilliantly illuminates how the justification for empire-building in the 19th and early 20th centuries was inescapably imbedded in the cultural imagination of the West.”