Boston: Little, Brown and Company, (1966).
Price: $150.00
Hardcover. First edition. Fine in a lightly rubbed, about near fine dustwrapper with a short tear. Author's complimentary slip laid in. Inscribed by the author to his editor at the *New Yorker,* Rachel MacKenzie: "New York, March 1966. For Rachel, who guided me like the Northern Star, Arturo." MacKenzie was the dedicatee of Vivante's story collection *The French Girls of Killini: Twenty-One Short Stories.* 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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