Walter J. Slatoff The Look of Distance: Reflections on Suffering & Sympathy in Modern Literature -- Auden to Agee, Whitman to Woolf. Ohio State University Press, 1985. First edition inscribed and signed by author. 081420385X  309 pages. Volume, measuring approximately 6" x 8.75", is bound in dark gray cloth, with stamped gilt lettering to spine. Book is in fine condition. Dust jacket displays light shelfwear. Inscription to Cornell academics Jonathan Culler and Cynthia Chase appears on the half title page and reads "For Jonathan and Cynthia / With best wishes, I hope / you'll take the remarks on / page 9, lines 4+ 5, personally, but not the long paragraph / in which they are embedded. / Walt". Slatoff was professor of English literature and chairman of the English Department at Cornell.