First UK edition of Bellow's acclaimed first book, the beginning of an auspicious career that culminated in the National Book Award, Pulitzer and Nobel Prizes, among numerous other accolades.
Near fine in a very good plus jacket.
Price: $400.00
"Great pressure is brought to bear to make us undervalue ourselves. On the other hand, civilization teaches that each of us is an inestimable prize. There are, then, these two preparations: one for life and the other for death. Therefore we value and are ashamed to value ourselves."
Fellow Nobel winner J.M. Coetzee wrote of THE DANGLING MAN: "[in it] can be discerned the lonely, humiliated clerks of Gogol and Dostoevsky, brooding upon revenge; the Roquentin of Sartre's NAUSEA, the scholar who undergoes a strange metaphysical experience that estranges him from the world; and the lonely young poet of Rilke's NOTEBOOKS OF MALTE LAURIDS BRIGGE." An important debut.
Read more: Coetzee, "Bellow's Gift," New York Review of Books, May 27, 2004.
First printing. London: John Lehmann, 1946. 7.25'' x 4.75''. Original full yellow cloth. In original unclipped (8s. 6d.) pictorial jacket designed by Robert Medley. 192 pages. Jacket spine toned, some rubbing and soiling to rear panel. Book has tiny lean, a few small bumps. Overall bright and sound.
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