The Recognitions
Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1955. 8vo, black cloth, gilt titles, 956pp. First Edition. Unclipped dust jacket (7.50) with toning to panels, a few spots of soiling to front panel, rubbing to rear, light edge wear with a few short closed tears and a small chip to top edge of rear panel. Ownership signature, toning to front endpapers, light fading and rubbing to cloth. Contents clean, binding sharp and square. The true first edition of the landmark postmodern opus and author’s first book. Excoriated by the press upon release, and out of print for years, the labyrinthine story of the son of a Congregationalist minister who abandons a religious vocation and becomes a forger of Old Master’s paintings. Titled after the 3rd century theological drama by Clement of Alexandria, a work of pseudografia and forgery itself, and modeled after the Faustian legend. A very good copy in mylar.
Price: $750.00