First edition, scarce advance "presentation" copy, of O'Hara's acclaimed novel, in the original pictorial wrappers.
Very good plus.
Price: $3,000.00
"'Oh, I'm a son of a bitch,' he said."
"To me, O'Hara is the real Fitzgerald," Fran Lebowitz once said; underrated "because every single person who knew him hated him." Untrue; unkind; but fair enough. This is O'Hara's best known book, a sexually frank, Hemingway-endorsed narrative of Pennsylvania miseries, enacted in the person of Julian English, who magnifies his troubles with bitterness, alcohol, and finally carbon monoxide. The title of APPOINTMENT IN SAMARRA, taken from a parable retold by Maugham and used as the book's epigraph, serves to signal its inevitable end: fate and death come for us all, even unto the car dealerships of Gibbsville. A great American novel.
Read more: Geoffrey Wolff, The Art of Burning Bridges: A Life of John O'Hara; Bruccoli, John O'Hara: A Descriptive Bibliography, A2.1.a.
First edition. New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, (1934). 8'' x 5.5''. Original pictorial wrappers with flaps. Front fly leaf stamped with "TO BE PUBLISHED" and "PRICE," completed in pen with "Aug. 16" and "probably 2.50". 301, [1] pages. Housed in custom green cloth clamshell box. Wrappers with expert reinforcement along front fold, some small attendant areas of restoration; spine and rear panel toned, faint spine creasing.
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