A Fairy Tale of New York
(New York): Delacorte, (1973).
Price: $300.00
Hardcover. First edition. Fine in a fine dust jacket. Signed by Donleavy on the half-title, and uncommon thus.
Item #620292
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