GILBERT, Edwin. The Beautiful Life (signed)
GILBERT, Edwin. The Beautiful Life. New York: Putnam. 1966. 8vo. First edition. Publisher’s black cloth lettered in gilt to spine and upper board, in dust jacket. A nice association copy, inscribed by the author to Louis and Bryna Untermeyer. A very good copy, gilt at spine dulled, the cloth lightly marked. Binding tight and square, central leaf creased at gutter. A few spots to top edge, the contents otherwise fine. The dust jacket unclipped and gently bumped at extremities, but a smart copy. With one cutting pasted in at front behind flap, and others loosely inserted.
The author’s sixth novel, a satirical glimpse at Park Avenue/Fifth Avenue la dolce vita made fashionable by Truman Capote et al, which, according to a contemporary newspaper cutting laid in, makes the reader either realise the vicarious experiences missed from not being there, or merely thankful one was indeed not there. The dedicatees, the Untermeyers, were voracious editors of poetry and literature anthologies and Louis himself knew all too well the feeling of cultural isolation. Scarce signed.
GILBERT, Edwin. The Beautiful Life. New York: Putnam. 1966. 8vo. First edition. Publisher’s black cloth lettered in gilt to spine and upper board, in dust jacket. A nice association copy, inscribed by the author to Louis and Bryna Untermeyer. A very good copy, gilt at spine dulled, the cloth lightly marked. Binding tight and square, central leaf creased at gutter. A few spots to top edge, the contents otherwise fine. The dust jacket unclipped and gently bumped at extremities, but a smart copy. With one cutting pasted in at front behind flap, and others loosely inserted.
The author’s sixth novel, a satirical glimpse at Park Avenue/Fifth Avenue la dolce vita made fashionable by Truman Capote et al, which, according to a contemporary newspaper cutting laid in, makes the reader either realise the vicarious experiences missed from not being there, or merely thankful one was indeed not there. The dedicatees, the Untermeyers, were voracious editors of poetry and literature anthologies and Louis himself knew all too well the feeling of cultural isolation. Scarce signed.
GILBERT, Edwin. The Beautiful Life. New York: Putnam. 1966. 8vo. First edition. Publisher’s black cloth lettered in gilt to spine and upper board, in dust jacket. A nice association copy, inscribed by the author to Louis and Bryna Untermeyer. A very good copy, gilt at spine dulled, the cloth lightly marked. Binding tight and square, central leaf creased at gutter. A few spots to top edge, the contents otherwise fine. The dust jacket unclipped and gently bumped at extremities, but a smart copy. With one cutting pasted in at front behind flap, and others loosely inserted.
The author’s sixth novel, a satirical glimpse at Park Avenue/Fifth Avenue la dolce vita made fashionable by Truman Capote et al, which, according to a contemporary newspaper cutting laid in, makes the reader either realise the vicarious experiences missed from not being there, or merely thankful one was indeed not there. The dedicatees, the Untermeyers, were voracious editors of poetry and literature anthologies and Louis himself knew all too well the feeling of cultural isolation. Scarce signed.