Item #069253 The House of the Solitary Maggot (Sleepers in Moon-Crowned Valleys, part two). James Purdy.

The House of the Solitary Maggot (Sleepers in Moon-Crowned Valleys, part two)

Garden City, New York: Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1974. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket / Very Good. Item #069253
ISBN: 0385044135

Signed, dated, and inscribed to a named individual by the author across from the title page. Pages bright and clean except for light foxing along the head and foreedges and light ink spray on the heel edge; no owners' marks; binding square and secure, cloth hard cover (one-quarter black, balance in green) softened at the spine ends and mildly shelfworn at spine ends and corners. Dustjacket is moderately faded along the spine and bears small tears, chips, and creases at both spine ends as well as at the free corners, and there are a few tiny surface nicks on the front as well as a thin line of rubbing along the left front edge, a line of toning and gray smudging along the rear foreedge, and a few little chips along the top and bottom edges of the jacket, otherwise sound and attractive, unclipped, now protected in a clear sleeve. 360pp.; Signed by Author.

Price: $22.50

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