James Purdy

Malcolm

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. A nearly fine copy. Offered together with a first edition of the stage play adaptation by Edward Albee, near fine in an unclipped jacket.

Price: $65.00