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London: Penguin, in association with Secker & Warburg, 1967. First Printing thus. Mass market paperback. Fair. 184, [8] pages. Some page discoloration. Cover chipped. Signed on fi… Plus…

London: Penguin, in association with Secker & Warburg, 1967. First Printing thus. Mass market paperback. Fair. 184, [8] pages. Some page discoloration. Cover chipped. Signed on first page. Ink notation inside front cover. James Otis Purdy (July 17, 1914 - March 13, 2009) was a controversial American novelist, short-story writer, poet, and playwright who, since his debut in 1956, published over a dozen novels, and many collections of poetry, short stories, and plays. His work has been translated into more than 30 languages and in 2013 his short stories were collected in The Complete Short Stories of James Purdy. He has been praised by writers as diverse as Edward Albee, James M. Cain, Lillian Hellman, Francis King, Marianne Moore, Dorothy Parker, Dame Edith Sitwell, Terry Southern, Gore Vidal (who described Purdy as "an authentic American genius"), Jonathan Franzen (who called him, in Farther Away, "one of the most undervalued and underread writers in America"), A.N. Wilson, and both Jane Bowles and Paul Bowles. Purdy was the recipient of the Morton Dauwen Zabel Fiction Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters (1993). In addition, he won two Guggenheim Fellowships (1958 and 1962), and grants from the Ford Foundation (1961), and Rockefeller Foundation. He worked as an interpreter and lectured in Europe with the United States Information Agency. Rear cover notes: 'this edition is not for sale in the U.S.A. or Canada"Cabot Wright Begins, first published in 1964, may be one of the most neglected masterpieces in post-World War II American literature.Cabot Wright is a handsome, Yale-educated stockbroker and scion of a good family. He also happens to be the convicted rapist of nearly three hundred women. Bernie Gladhart is a naive used-car salesman from Chicago, who-spurred on by his ambitious wife-decides to travel to Brooklyn and write the Great American Novel about the recently paroled Cabot Wright. As Bernie tries to track down Wright in Brooklyn, he encounters a series of bizarre and Dickensian characters and sets in motion an extraordinary chain of events. In this merciless and outrageous satire of American culture, cult writer James Purdy is unsparing and prophetic in his portrayal of television, publishing, Wall Street, race, urban poverty, sex, and the false values of American culture in a work compared to Candide by Susan Sontag. Considered too scabrous for the stifling culture mores of the early 1960s, Penguin, in association with Secker & Warburg, 1967, Salt Lake City: Geo. Q. Cannon & Sons Company, 1897. First edition. Hardcover. Tall thin octavo [25 cm] Dark green cloth over boards with a gilt stamped title and decorative borders on the front cover. Very good. There is a 1" split in the cloth along the rear joint, and a thin layer of glue has been applied to the spine, from the head to the foot. The underlying boards are exposed occasionally along the edges. There are a handful of very minor stains on the covers. This copy once belonged to the Deseret Sunday School Union, and has several library markings on the endpapers and title page, and a handwritten notation at the foot of the spine. There is a small loss from the top fore edge corner of the front free endsheet. Flake 1551. Lessons include Jesus as a Boy, Jesus and the Woman of Samaria, The Parable of the Sower, The Last Supper, The Visit of Jesus to the Nephites, Cain and Abel, The Necessity of a Latter-day Prophet, Joseph Smith's First Vision, and more., Geo. Q. Cannon & Sons Company, 1897, Kessinger Publishing, LLC, 2011-02-01. Hardcover. Good., Kessinger Publishing, LLC, 2011-02-01<

2011, ISBN: 9781169882065

Kessinger Publishing, LLC, 2011-02-01. Hardcover. New. This item is printed on demand.Absolutely Brand New & In Stock. 100% 30-Day Money Back. Direct from our warehouse. Ships by USPS a… Plus…

Kessinger Publishing, LLC, 2011-02-01. Hardcover. New. This item is printed on demand.Absolutely Brand New & In Stock. 100% 30-Day Money Back. Direct from our warehouse. Ships by USPS and UPS. Happy Customers is Our #1 Goal., Kessinger Publishing, LLC, 2011-02-01<