Alfred A. Knopf, 1975. 8vo, beige cloth over brown paper boards, gilt titles, red topstain, 190pp. Unclipped dust jacket (6.95) mildly rubbed to panels, closed tear to top edge of front panel. Ownership inscription and stamping, ex-libris from the Carmelite Center of Aylesford, Il, proffering a somewhat extra literary value.....
Alfred A. Knopf, 1988. 8vo, silver quarter cloth over silver paper boards, silver titles, 335pp. Stated First Edition. Unclipped dust jacket (15.95) mildly sunned to panels, a few faint spots of discoloration. Contents clean, binding firm. Powers’ second novel, life of a Midwestern priest in a midlife vocational drama. Finalist.....
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.....
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.....
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.....
The New American Library, 1966. 8vo, half black cloth over indigo paper boards, blue titles, green top stain, 304pp. Stated second printing. Price-clipped dust jacket with moderate creasing to spine crown, toning and rubbing to endpapers. Ownership signature to front endpaper, toning to preliminary pages. Contents clean, binding sharp and.....