Item #0079703 Lucifer with a Book. John Horne Burns.
Lucifer with a Book

Lucifer with a Book

New York: Harper Brothers, 1949. Hardcover. 1949, code B-Y on copyright page (presumed first edition, although no statement on the copyright page, and no date on the title page). Hardcover, black cloth. Very Good in a Good dust jacket. Cloth lightly bumped and frayed at the corners and spine ends; previous owner's neat signature on the fly leaf; clean text; sound binding. The DJ has a long split down the right side of the spine and a small area has been repaired with tape on the blank side; one other tape repair on the blank side as well; spine of the DJ has sunned; chipping and some loss along the edges. Burns' second book, a thinly veiled account of his time at Loomis School in Connecticut. This title was critically panned. Upon Burns' death at 36, Ernest Hemingway said, 'There was a fellow who wrote a fine book and then a stinking book about a prep school, and then he just blew himself up.' An uncommon title, especially in the dust jacket. Digital images available upon request. Very Good / Good. Item #0079703

Price: $160.00

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