Epistemology of the Closet. [Association copy] Sedgwick, Eve Kosofsky [Jonathan Goldberg] Women's, Gender and Sexuality Studies

First printing. 8vo. xi, 258 pp. Original black cloth binding. INSCRIBED by Sedgwick on the half-title page in the year of publication to Jonathan Goldberg: "For a certain tiger | from a certain panda, | lovingly and admiringly by," and then she has drawn a small paw print: Sedwick's charming sobriquets, Panda for herself (with a paw print signature) and Tiger for Goldberg. From the library of noted scholar on sexuality and queer studies, Jonathan Goldberg, whose signature is on the front free endpaper and whose light pencil underlining/notes are in the text. Goldberg was (along with Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick and Michael Moon) one of the four academics who launched and was one of the general editors of Duke University Press' landmark Series Q which brought a theoretical and interdisciplinary lens to gay and lesbian studies, approaching questions of sexuality from a queer perspective. His Queering the Renaissance was one of the first two books issued by the Press. They were also colleagues at Duke and very close friends. Pencil noted, else this is a tight, very good plus book in a slightly spine sunned DJ. Scarce: a more significant association copy of one of Sedwick's pioneering works cannot be imagined.