Taiwanese pirated edition of McCullers's acclaimed first novel, reproduced from a later Houghton Mifflin printing.
Very good in very good plus jacket.
Price: $150.00
This photo-offset printed copy of the Southern Gothic masterpiece shares with its many illicit brethren what Charles Elliott called "a certain quality of cheesiness. The paper is not quite so crisp and heavy as in a 'real' book; the covers are not quite so substantial or so carefully embossed." From the 1960s onward, the highly efficient and profitable Taiwanese pirate firms were subjected to increasing pressure from the American publishing industry via the US government, when it became clear that cheap overseas reproductions of US textbooks and literary classics had found a thriving market in US college students. An uncommon example of a once-common practice.
Read more: Elliott, "Taiwan's Best-Selling Pirates," LIFE Magazine; Kaser, Book Pirating in Taiwan.
"Boston" [Taiwan]: "Houghton Mifflin" [n.p.], "(1967)" [n.d.]. 7.75'' x 5.25''. Original tan cloth with gilt-lettered spine. In original fuschia and white dust jacket. 273, [1] pages. Jacket with light edgewear, spot of soil, some toning to verso. Boards bowing a bit, with faintly toned spine.
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