First edition, hardcover issue of John Hawkes’s landmark early novel, a hallucinatory account of crime, horse racing, violence, and obsession in postwar England, and a key work of American experimental fiction. Flannery O’Connor famously compared reading Hawkes to being trapped in a dream. 8vo, red cloth with black spine lettering, pictorial dust jacket retaining the $3.50 price, with an introduction by distinguished American literary critic Leslie A. Fiedler. Published in 1961 by New Directions. Glue burn to endpapers. Light bumping and rubbing to dust jacket. A particularly attractive example of the considerably scarcer hardcover issue.
First edition, hardcover issue of John Hawkes’s landmark early novel, a hallucinatory account of crime, horse racing, violence, and obsession in postwar England, and a key work of American experimental fiction. Flannery O’Connor famously compared reading Hawkes to being trapped in a dream. 8vo, red cloth with black spine lettering, pictorial dust jacket retaining the $3.50 price, with an introduction by distinguished American literary critic Leslie A. Fiedler. Published in 1961 by New Directions. Glue burn to endpapers. Light bumping and rubbing to dust jacket. A particularly attractive example of the considerably scarcer hardcover issue.
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