The Agony and the Ecstasy: The Biographical Novel of Michelangelo by Irving Stone [FIRST EDITION] • 1961 • Doubleday

The Agony and the Ecstasy: The Biographical Novel of Michelangelo by Irving Stone 

FIRST EDITION [1961] DOUBLEDAY & COMPANY

Nice, tightly bound copy of this first edition (sans dust jacket)

Tan cloth boards have some spotting (or foxing), most visible on spine and text block.  Interior pages look and read beautifully, with clean, bright white pages. 

Irving Stone’s classic biographical novel—in which both the artist and the man are brought to life in full. A masterpiece in its own right, this novel offers a compelling portrait of Michelangelo’s dangerous, impassioned loves, and the God-driven fury from which he wrested the greatest art the world has ever known.