The Landscape of Nightmare: Studies in the Contemporary American Novel; The Gotham Library
New York: New York University Press, 1965. First printing. Paperback. First edition, 1965. Softcover, 173 pp., clean unmarked text, Very Good copy, soiling and discoloration to the covers, some wear to the tips and edges of the covers. Signed by Baumbach on the half-title page and inscribed by him to Matt Bruccoli. 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. Near Fine. Item #s0008280
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