[Item #45449] The Novel Now A Guide to Contemporary Fiction. Anthony Burgess.

The Novel Now A Guide to Contemporary Fiction

Hardcover, New York: W. W. Norton & Company, 1967. First Edition. Very Good+ in Very Good+ dust jacket. Ships same or next business day. Bookplate of noted collector, Rolland Comstock, on paste-down endpaper. "This survey (which is about the novel and the novel only) is not for the well-read reader who needs gaps [...] to be filled elegantly, nor for those who hunger after criticism in depth. It is for those, especially the young, who are starting to take the art of the novel seriously..." Book's spine is slightly skewed and loose, minimal edge wear, small bump on spine tail, pages are tanned but clean. Dust jacket protected in archival plastic cover. DJ has normal edge and shelf wear, bottom corner of front flap is clipped, lightly tanned, crease on spine. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 224 pages. [Item #45449]

Price: $45.00

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