Between the Covers

Hardcover. First edition. Small stains on the edges of the boards and topedge, some modest fraying at the cloth, good or better in about very good dustwrapper with some chips at the crown and light wear. Inscribed by the author to his parents: "To my father and mother with love, Thomas Berger." Berger was a fine, if now absurdly underappreciated author. He wrote successfully in several genres, but is best known for his picaresque western *Little Big Man*, the basis for the film of the same name. Indeed it was his success at so many genres (literary fiction, mysteries, epics, westerns, comedies, etc.) that might have contributed to the failure of critics to properly value him. This is the author's first book, winner of the Dial Prize, the first in his series featuring Carlo Reinhart, with a wonderful association - one of the best possible copies one could hope for.

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