Ghost Town, a Novel
New York: Henry Holt and Co., 1998. First printing. Hardcover. First edition, 1998. Cloth-backed boards in dust jacket, 147 pp., clean unmarked text, Fine copy in Fine dust jacket. Dust jacket housed in archival dust jacket protector. Nice association copy, signed on the titlepage by Coover and inscribed by him to his sometime-editor Matthew Bruccoli--Bruccoli edited and published Coover's "Hair O' the Chine" in 1979. 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 / fine. Item #s0008143
ISBN: 0805058842
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