Bell, Madison Smartt

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Hardcover, New York: Ticknor & Fields, 1987. First Edition. Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket. INSCRIBED by author on half-title page, "For Mr. Rolland Comstock - If anyone's vanity is being stroked here, I'm sure it must be mine - Madison Smartt Bell." "This first collection of stories [by Madison Smartt Bell] gives a rich and varied display of his astonishing talent and versatility. [...] Bell's characters have brief pasts and uncertain futures, strange private ambitions and baffling purposes - yet each one engages us and our sympathies." Ships same or next business day. Bookplate of noted collector on paste-down endpaper. Book has small bump on tail end of spine and bottom corners of boards; otherwise, free from major defect. Dust jacket protected in archival plastic cover. DJ has minimal edge wear, lightly faded on spine. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 179 pages. [Item #44379]

Price: $25.00