Fairy Tales of New York
New York: Random House, (1961).
Price: $40.00
Hardcover. First edition. Very good with ink notation on front fly in very good price-clipped dustwrapper with minor stains and small nicks on spine ends.
Item #291361
J.P. Donleavy
birth name: James Patrick Donleavy
born: 4/23/1926
Biography
American-born author of the lusty comic novel The Ginger Man (Paris, 1955; U.S., 1958), which introduced Dangerfield, the coarse, comic antihero. Donleavy is noted for characters who display heroism in the face of a mad universe and remain deeply attached to life despite its flaws. - Merriam-Webster's Encyclopedia of Literaturemore