Victor Gollancz, 1957. Small 8vo, burgundy cloth, gilt titles, 192pp. First Edition. Inscribed by Purdy to the free front endpaper. Purdy adds: ’this book has been censored.’ Unclipped dust jacket (12/5 net) with discreet tape repair to front panel, moderate wear to panels. Ownership signature to front endpaper. Contents clean.....
Farrar Strauss and Giroux, 1964. 8vo, black cloth, gilt titles, purple topstain, 228pp. Stated first printing. Unclipped dust jacket (4.95) with toning to spine and flaps, moderate rubbing to rear panel. Ownership signature to front endpaper. Contents clean, binding sharp and square. The hilarious third novel by the unsung American.....
New Directions, 1957. 8vo, linen grey cloth over black papered boards, black titles, 175pp. First Edition. Unclipped dust jacket (3.50) mildly toned and worn at edges, sunning to rear panel. Light wear present to boards, scuffing to edges and corners. Contents clean, binding square and tight. The first trade publication.....
Note of Hand Publishers, 1977. 8vo, orange cloth, black titles, 169pp. First edition, limited to 1000 copies, signed by Purdy to the colophon. Additionally inscribed and signed twice to the title page, with a tipped in letter press postcard printing a poem with another inscription by Purdy. Unpriced dust jacket.....
Note of Hand Publishers, 1977. 8vo, orange papered boards, blue titles, 169pp. Dust jacket sunned and rubbed to panels, ownership signature to front endpaper. Contents clean, binding firm. A volume of ten short stories by Purdy, previously published in magazines and small press limitations. This volume one of 1000 copies.....
Farrar, Strauss and Giroux, 1967. 8vo, black blind stamped cloth, white titles, 241pp. Stated First printing. Price clipped dust jacket marked with ownership signature to front flap, discreet signature to front endpaper. Dust jacket mildly spotted and rubbed, boards faded to outer edges. Contents clean, binding firm. Purdy’s novel based.....
Peter Owen, 1989. 8vo, green cloth, gilt titles, 152pp. First British edition. Inscribed by Purdy to the title page. Unclipped dust jacket (11.95) with moderate wear to panels. Contents clean, binding sharp and square. A satire of New York in the 1980s, one of the final novels by the unsung.....
Doubleday, 1974. 8vo, black cloth over forest green cloth boards, decorative endpapers, 360pp. Stated First Edition. Unclipped dust jacket (7.95) mildly toned and rubbed to panels, foxing to text edges. Signed by Purdy to the title page. The second installment in a loose trilogy of Midwestern small town sagas, Sleepers.....
Doubleday, 1972. 8vo, orange quarter cloth over linen green cloth, purple titles, 120pp. Stated First Edition. Unclipped dust jacket (4.95) spotted and rubbed to rear panel, sunning to spine. Contents clean, binding firm. A bizarre novella of a jealous heiress, an art nouveau painter, and an exotic bird. A nearly.....
Jonathan Cape, 1972. 8vo, black paper boards, gilt titles, 120pp. First British edition. Unclipped dust jacket (1.50 net) with moderate rubbing and spotting to panels. Ownership signature to front endpaper. Contents clean, binding sharp and square. The first British appearance of Purdy’s fantastical novel of a tryst between an heiress.....
Arbor House, 1975. 8vo, grey cloth, blue titles, 140pp. First edition. Unclipped dust jacket (7.50) with moderate rubbing to panels. Ownership signature, toning to endpapers. Contents clean, binding sharp and square. A novel of a paralyzed Vietnam veteran on the Virginia coast entering a bizarre epistolary love affair. A very.....
Nadja Editions, 1978. 8vo, single stitch blue paper pamphlet with french folds, two uncut page leaves. Limited edition of 174 copies, signed and numbered by Purdy in pencil, this being copy No. 174. Original drawing by Purdy to cover and title page. Prints the titular poem. Unfortunate damp stain to.....
Farrar Strauss & Cudahy, 1959. 8vo, black cloth over lilac papered boards, white and blue titles, 215pp. First edition, signed by Purdy on a tipped in bookplate. Price clipped dust jacket mildly toned to panels, faint wear to edges. Contents clean, binding sharp and square. Purdy’s tragicomic picaresque novelist debut.....
Arbor House, 1978. 8vo, black quarter cloth over green papered boards, orange titles, 185pp. First Edition. Unclipped dust jacket (8.95) toned to panels, faintly visible damp stain present to front panel. Advance review copy with author photo and two press release sheets. Contents clean, binding crisp and sharp. Purdy’s transgressive.....
Secker & Warburg, 1961. 8vo, blue cloth, silver titles, 207pp. First British edition. Unclipped just jacket (15s net) with moderate toning and rubbing to panels. Ownership signature to front endpaper. Contents clean, binding sharp and square. The first British appearance of the second published novel by Purdy, about the unfolding.....
Vision, 1976. 8vo, brown cloth, gilt titles, 166pp. First edition. Price-clipped dust jacket with toning and rubbing to panels, short closed tear to front panel. Ownership signature to front endpaper. Contents clean, binding sharp and firm. Tipped in letter with envelope addressed by Purdy to a critic and friend, with.....