Alter, Robert
Partial Magic: The Novel as a Self-Conscious Genre.
University of California Press, 1975. 0520027558  248 pages.
Volume is bound in light blue cloth, with stamped black lettering to spine.. Book shows very light shelfwear. Binding is firm. The lower outside corner of the rear flyleaf has been excised. Transparent tape appears across the outside corner of the two last pages of the index, without loss of text. Pages are clean and bright. Dust jacket exhibits light shelfwear.