New York: Farrar, Straus & Cudahy, (1959).
Price: $65.00
Hardcover. First edition. Boards slightly bowed, near fine in a very good dust jacket with a lightly toned spine, and a couple faint soil spots on the rear panel. Inscribed by the author on the title page. Laid in is an advertisement and mail order form for "Malcom & Others" an evening of dramatized readings by Purdy, presented by Gene Andrewski and co-sponsored by The Poetry Center. Starring Betty Field, Ruth Ford, Zachary Scott, and Eli Wallach. Perhaps the author's most important novel, later dramatized by Edward Albee.
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James Purdy
birth name: James Otis Purdy
born: 7/17/1923
died: 3/13/2009