DELIVERANCE

By James Dickey

1970

First edition of this suspenseful tale of a backwater rafting trip gone horribly wrong, adapted into an Oscar-winning film starring Burt Reynolds and Jon Voight — James Dickey's first novel.

Very good in a very good jacket.

Price: $100.00

DELIVERANCE

"Because, for the Lord's sake, there may be something important in the hills. Do you know what?"

THE CINCINNATI ENQUIRER praises the "heart-stopping" suspense of DELIVERANCE, and the reviewer notes how the building intensity of the book resulted in his inability to put it down (32). This energy was converted into Hollywood success in 1973, as the Burt Reynolds and Jon Voight-led film earned three Academy Award nominations, including Best Picture.

Read more: Terry Dunham, "To stalk and be stalked," The Cincinnati Enquirer 9 April 1970.

The Object

First printing. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1970. 8.5'' x 5.5''. Original tan cloth boards with green lettering. Original unclipped ($5.95) color pictorial dust jacket, designed by Paul Bacon Studios Inc. Green topstain, green endpapers. [10], 278 pages. Jacket lightly edgeworn. Book with slight lean. Some toning to endpapers. Overall, sound.

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