Fat City
Farrar, Strauss and Giroux, 1969. 8vo, quarter orange cloth over grey flecked paper boards, black titles, black top stain, 183pp. Second printing. Unclipped dust jacket (5.50) with moderate rubbing to panels, curling to flap edges. Ownership signature, toning to front endpaper. Contents clean, binding sharp and square. The debut and only novel by the California writer, a story of two champion boxers in the author’s native Stockton, California. Dust jacket design by Janet Halverson, with blurbs from Joan Didion and Walker Percy. Adapted into a 1972 film directed by John Huston and starring Stacey Keach and Jeff Bridges. A nearly fine copy in mylar.
Price: $50.00