Boston: Little, Brown and Company, (1967).
Price: $275.00
Hardcover. First edition. A trifle sunned at the crown, else near fine in a slightly rubbed, near fine dustwrapper. Twenty-one short stories, all of which appeared in *The New Yorker*. The Dedication Copy, Inscribed by the author to his editor at *The New Yorker*, Rachel MacKenzie: "Again, for Rachel, hand in hand, Arturo. Wellfleet, March, 1967." The printed dedication reads simply: "To Rachel MacKenzie." Rachel MacKenzie replaced Katherine White as the fiction editor at *The New Yorker*, on the latter's retirement, on the recommendation of May Sarton. During her tenure at the magazine MacKenzie was noted for her nurturing and editing of, among others, Sarton, Philip Roth, Muriel Spark, and especially Isaac Bashevis Singer. MacKenzie's enthusiasm led to the magazine devoting an entire issue to Spark's *The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie*. However, the magazine wouldn't publish *Goodbye, Columbus* as she recommended because William Shawn was too squeamish over the more "frank" aspects of the novella.
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