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London: Penguin, in association with Secker & Warburg, 1967. First Printing thus. Mass market paperback. Fair. 184, [8] pages. Some page discoloration. Cover chipped. Signed on first page. Ink notation inside front cover. James Otis Purdy (July 17, 1914 - March 13, 2009) was a controversial American novelist, short-story writer, poet, and playwright who, since his debut in 1956, published over a dozen novels, and many collections of poetry, short stories, and plays. His work has been translated into more than 30 languages and in 2013 his short stories were collected in The Complete Short Stories of James Purdy. He has been praised by writers as diverse as Edward Albee, James M. Cain, Lillian Hellman, Francis King, Marianne Moore, Dorothy Parker, Dame Edith Sitwell, Terry Southern, Gore Vidal (who described Purdy as "an authentic American genius"), Jonathan Franzen (who called him, in Farther Away, "one of the most undervalued and underread writers in America"), A.N.…
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- Title 63: dream palace: Eleven stories and a novella
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Panther, 1961. First U.K. Edition, First Printing. Mass market paperback. Good. 159, [1] pages. Some page discoloration. Preface by Edith Sitwell. Signed on first page. Ink notation inside front cover may also be from author. James Otis Purdy (July 17, 1914 - March 13, 2009) was a controversial American novelist, short-story writer, poet, and playwright who, since his debut in 1956, published over a dozen novels, and many collections of poetry, short stories, and plays. His work has been translated into more than 30 languages and in 2013 his short stories were collected in The Complete Short Stories of James Purdy. He has been praised by writers as diverse as Edward Albee, James M. Cain, Lillian Hellman, Francis King, Marianne Moore, Dorothy Parker, Dame Edith Sitwell, Terry Southern, Gore Vidal (who described Purdy as "an authentic American genius"), Jonathan Franzen (who called him, in Farther Away, "one of the most undervalued and underread writers in America"), A.N.…
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