Author Name: Purdy, James
Title: Color of Darkness: Eleven Stories and a Novella
Binding: Hardcover
Book Condition: Near Fine in Very Good+ dust jacket
Edition: First Edition; First Printing
Publisher: NY New Directions 1957
ISBN Number: B000EITZM2
Seller ID: 16151
175 pages; Near Fine/Very Good Plus. Very nice Beige on black shiny cloth boards with black lettering. Just a bit of shelf rub to spine tips. Very, very light age tan to outside page edges. An inscription to Donald Gallup (Donnie) , a noted bibliographer, editor and art and book collector who spent more than three decades as a library curator at Yale, from the Author (Jamie) on front free page. Also signed James Purdy on same page. Boards are straight, tips are pointed, spine is square and pages are clean. DJ is a bit rubbed to spine edges, spine tips and corner tips. Chipped at top spine tip and corner tips. Now in protective sleeve. An excellent gift! Last year some friends of an unknown American writer named James Purdy printed and privately distributed two paperbound volumes by him: 63: Dream Palace, a short novel, and Don't Call Me by My Real Name, a collection of nine stories. They attracted extraordinary attention among the writers in this country and abroad. New Directions here presents the novel and short stories of the privately printed book plus two remarkable stories by Mr. Purdy never previously published.; Signed by Author
Fiction
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