John O'Hara, A Checklist; Compiled by Matthew J. Bruccoli; With a Previously Unpublished Speech by John O'Hara
New York: Random House, 1972. First printing. Hardcover. First edition, 1972. Cloth hardcover in dust jacket, 136 pp., illustrated, clean unmarked text, Fine copy in Near Fine dust jacket, some wear to the dust jacket including some creasing and rubbing. No signature or ownership marks of any kind, but author Matthew J. Bruccoli's personal copy. Matthew Joseph Bruccoli (1931-2008) was the foremost F. Scott Fitzgerald scholar and bibliographer of his time. Additionally, he wrote on, and edited critical editions of Hemingway, Hammett, Cozzens, Thomas Wolfe, John O'Hara, and Vladimir Nabokov. He studied bibliography under the tutelage of Fredson Bowers and worked with Jacob Blanck on the Bibliography of American Literature. He was responsible for the republication and rediscovery of dozens of forgotten American novels, and went on to be the editor and publisher of the 400+ volume Dictionary of Literary Biography, and was the chief editor of the University of Pittsburgh Press bibliography series. Fine / near fine. Item #s0008127
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