GOLK (First UK edition - first printing - author's first novel)

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First printing of the first UK edition. Jacket design by Jozef Gross. ***Very good in black cloth-covered boards with gilt titles to the spine. The gilt is still beautifully bright, having been protected by the dustwrapper. The boards are clean and unmarked. No bumps or creases. Corners sharp. No reading lean to the binding. Spine tight. Page block edges lightly foxed, with a small abrasion to the fore-edge. Internally also very good with clean pages and no inscriptions. Some offsetting to the endpapers. No foxing to the interior pages. ***In a very good illustrated dustwrapper, which has not been price-clipped, showing the original publisher's price of 16s net. The dustwrapper is complete, with some rubbing and creasing at the edges - mainly at the top edge of the back panel and the top and tail of the spine. Corner tips slightly rubbed. No serious chips or tears. Virtually no fading to the spine colour (which is unusual). Some marks to the white area on the back panel. Dustwrapper bright. ***190mm x130mm. 207 pages. ***'Richard Gustave Stern (Feb 25, 1928 - Jan 24, 2013) was an American novelist, short story writer, and educator. During his tenure at the University of Chicago, Stern was allegedly involved in the "suppression" of the "beat edition" of the Chicago Review (winter edition of 1958). At the time the Chicago Review was a student/faculty literary publication published by the University of Chicago. The editor then was Irving Rosenthal. The "beat edition" of the Review was to include excerpts from "Naked Lunch", by William S. Burroughs, and a few Jack Kerouac stories. According to Rosenthal, Stern, along with Joshua Taylor, another faculty member, wanted to suppress the winter issue, being himself "so quick to protect the administration." Stern's own account of the "so-called suppression" appeared in "How I Think I Got to Think the Way I Think" in The Republic of Letters (reprinted in Still on Call, Stern's "orderly miscellany"). It recounts Stern's successful attempt not only to save the review (the University President at the time, Lawrence A. Kimpton, wished to stop funding the journal) but to keep the following issue from dropping any of the pieces (of "Naked Lunch" and other "beat" works) that had been accepted.' (Wiki) ***'Saul Bellow writes: "The real thing doesn't come along often -- Richard Stern's "Golk" is fantastic, funny, bitter, intelligent without weariness. Best of all "Golk" is pure -- that is to say necessary. Without hokum."' (Quote taken from the front flap of the dustwrapper). ***A first printing of the first UK edition of the author's first published book, and first novel - in its original dustwrapper, in nice collectable condition. A very uncommon book. ***For all our books, postage is charged at cost, allowing for packaging: any shipping rates indicated on ABE are an average only: we will reduce the P & P charge where appropriate - please contact us for postal rates for heavier books and sets etc.

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Bibliografische Details

Titel

GOLK (First UK edition - first printing - author's first novel)

Verlag

Macgibbon & Kee, London

Erscheinungsjahr

1960

Sprache

Englisch

Einband

Hardcover

Illustrator

Jozef Gross (Jacket design)

Auflage

First UK Edition

Druck

First Printing

Zustand

Very Good

Zustand des Schutzumschlags

Very Good

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