THE VOLCANO LOVER; A Romance

New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1992. First Printing. Cloth and boards. Very Fine/Very Fine. SIGNED by the Author on the front free endpaper, 8vo, black quarter cloth with gold letters on spine over red boards with black lettering on front cover, frontispiece is a B&W sheet with 8 panels of Mt. Vesuvius exploding in 1799, archival mylar-protected pictorial dust jacket (unclipped) of a sailing ship beneath erupting Vesuvius, [x] + 419 pages. Its Krochs & Brentanos' "1st Edition Circle" bookmark accompanies volume. EXCEPTIONAL CONDITION! SIGNED by the AUTHOR! No previous owner or remainder marks.<br /> <br /> Susan Sontag (1933 - 2004) was an American writer, philosopher, and political activist. The Volcano Lover was the author's third and finest novel. <br /> <br /> First Hardcover Edition, printed as a Kroch's & Brentano's "The First Edition Circle" selection and distributed to subscribers only. Precedes later editions.<br /> <br /> "Based on the lives of Sir William Hamilton, his celebrated wife, Emma, and Lord Nelson, and peopled with many of the great figures of the day. The Volcano Lover is about revolution, the fate of nature, the condition of women, operatic emotions and stories from Don Giovanni to Tosca, art and the collector's obsessions, and, above all, love."--from the jacket.