Gerald Sykes' "Alienation" (1964)

New York City: George Braziller, Inc. (book, anthology, slipcased), 1964.
Slipcase: 9.75" x 6.75" x 3.5", blue paper-covered non-acid-free boards with label on spine.
Volume I: 9.375" x 6.375" x 1.75", 641 pages, blue cloth with silver text on spine, no dust-jacket as issued.
Volume II: 9.375" x 6.375" x 1.625", 595 pages (numbered 642-1237), blue cloth with silver text on spine, no dust-jacket as issued.

Alienation, edited with an introduction by Gerald Sykes, published as a two-volume slipcased hardcover set by George Braziller, Inc. (New York City) in 1964. Volume I is subtitled Alienation: The Cultural Climate of Our Time and Volume II is subtitled Alienation: The Cultural Climate of Modern Man. 

William S. Burroughs contributes a ten-page excerpt from Naked Lunch at pages 190-199, in Volume I.

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Contents, Volume I: 

• Gerald Sykes: Introduction
• Book One: Victims:
• "This Neutrality Toward Death":
• Siegfried Giedion: "Mechanization Takes Command"
• Fëdor Dostoevsky: "Notes from the House of the Dead"
• Gustav Herling: "A World Apart"
• Henri Alleg: "The Question"
• Erich Fromm: "The Sane Society"
• Erich Kahler: "The Tower and the Abyss"
• "I Watched Them Disappear": 
• Stanley Kunitz: "The War Against the Trees"
• James Agee: "Let Us Now Praise Famous Men"
• Henry Miller: "Reunion in Brooklyn"
• Edward Dahlberg: "Because I Was Flesh"
• Paul Goodman: "Growing Up Absurd"
• Ralph Ellison: "Invisible Man"
• Norman Mailer: "The White Negro"
• William S. Burroughs: "Naked Lunch"
• "Public Smile, Private Blank":
• Peter Viereck: "The Unadjusted Man"
• Randall Jarrell: "A Sad Heart at the Super-Market"
• Kenneth Rexroth: "Disengagement: The Art of the Beat Generation"
• "Those of the Inhabitants of Sodom Who Were Spared":
• Marcel Proust: "Cities of the Plain"
• Jean Genet: "Our Lady of the Flowers"
• Jean-Paul Sartre: "Saint Genet"
• Sherwood Anderson: "Hands"
• W. H. Auden: "Get There If You Can and See the Land"
• Book Two: Perspectives:
• "The Test of a First-Rate Intelligence":
• F. Scott Fitzgerald: "The Crack-Up"
• George Santayana: "Americanism"
• Charles Péguy: "Destitution and Poverty"
• Paul Valéry: "History and Politics"
• "The Creative Mind in America Is Fragmented":
• Philip Rahv: "Paleface and Redskin"
• Walt Whitman: "Song of Myself"
• Henry James: "The Beast in the Jungle"
• Theodore Dreiser: "Sister Carrie"
• "And That Is Called Nihilism":
• Ivan Turgenev: "Fathers and Sons"
• Nicolas Berdayev: "The Origin of Russian Communism"
• Max Braunschweig: "The Philosophic Thought of the Young Marx"
• "The Way They Look at You Is Perfect":
• Henri Michaux: "A Barbarian in Asia"
• D. T. Suzuki: "Zen and Japanese Culture"
• Arthur Koestler: "A Stink of Zen"
• "Laid Down His Scythe": 
• Marcel Aymé: "The Green Mare"
• Alejo Carpenter: "The Lost Steps"
• Hugo von Hofmannsthal: "The Wanderer"
• Gabriel Marcel: "The Decline of Wisdom"
• e. e. cummings: "i – Six Nonlectures"
• Robert Price: "The Hidden Airplane"
• "We Must Wear Our Souls in Subtle Schemes":
• Charles Baudelaire: "The Death of Artists"
• Stendhal: "The Life of Henri Brulard"
• William Blake: "Proverbs of Hell"
• William Shakespeare: "Hamlet"
• St. John of the Cross: "The Dark Night of the Soul"
• Plato: "The Republic"

Contents, Volume II: 

• Book Three: Dialogues:
• "The New Art Is Not Accessible to Every Man":
• José Ortega y Gasset: "The Dehumanization of Art"
• Guillaume Apollinaire: "The New Spirit and the Poets"
• Mircea Eliade: "Myth and Reality"
• Alfred Jarry: "Ubu Roi"
• Samuel Beckett: "Waiting for Godot"
• Eugène Ionesco: "The Bald Soprano"
• T. S. Eliot: "The Classics and the Man of Letters"
• Virgil Thomson: "Shades of Poets Dead and Gone"
• Nikolai V. Gogol: "The Overcoat"
• Tomasso Landolfi: "Gogol's Wife"
• Vladimir Nabokov: "Nikolai Gogol"
• "Nevertheless He Was in Reality a Wolf":
• Hermann Hesse: "Steppenwolf"
• C. P. Cavafy: "As Much as You Can"
• Arthur Rimbaud: "A Season in Hell"
• Enid Starkie: "Arthur Rimbaud"
• E. M. Forster: "A Passage to India"
• Raja Rao: "The Serpent and the Rope"
• "Vassal, Slave, Inferior":
• Elizabeth Hardwick: "The Subjection of Women"
• Robert Lowell: "Life Studies"
• Nathanael West: "Miss Lonelyhearts"
• Horace Gregory: "McAlpin Garfinkel, Poet"
• Clement Greenberg: "Avant-Garde and Kitsch"
• Kikuchi Kan: "The Madman on the Roof"
• "Lend a Myth to God":
• Allen Tate: "Hart Crane"
• Hart Crane: "The Bridge"
• Book Four: Survivors:
• "A Necrophilous and Senseless Cry":
• Luis Portillo: "Unamuno's Last Lecture"
• Miguel de Unamuno: "Tragic Sense of Life"
• William Barrett: "Irrational Man"
• Alfred North Whitehead: "Science and the Modern World"
• C. G. Jung: "Modern Man in Search of a Soul"
• Seami Motokiyo: "On Attaining the Stage of Yugen"
• "An Earthly Story with a Hellish Meaning":
• D. H. Lawrence: "Studies in Classic American Literature"
• Rainer Maria Rilke: "The Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge"
• Franz Kafka: "The Castle"
• W. B. Yeats: "The Second Coming"
• Paul Klee: "Creative Credo"
• Frank Lloyd Wright: "Genius and the Mobocracy"
• John Marin: "To My Paint Children"
• Herbert Read: "Art Now"
• Vincent Van Gogh: "Letter to Emile Bernard"
• "The Is All Very Baffling to Man":
• Florida Scott-Maxwell: "Women and Sometimes Men"
• Emily Brontë: "Wuthering Heights"
• Emily Dickinson: "Poems"
• "Primary Words Are Spoken from the Being":
• Martin Buber: "I and Thou"
• Etienne Gilson: "Painting and Reality"
• Paul Tillich: "The Protestant Era"
• S. Radhakrishnan: "East and West"
• "Just Ease These Darbies at the Wrist":
• Herman Melville: "Moby Dick"
• Herman Melville: "Pierre"
• Herman Melville: "Bartleby the Scrivener"