Americans at Home by M. D. Elevitch - 1976-03

Palisades: First Person, 1976. Paperback. 124p., first book publication, 8 x 6 inch plain printed wraps with a decorated dj, this sur-wrapper a little nipped at head and tail. Inscribed and signed by Elevitch on the half title; the inscription, signed only in initials, reads "America! I want a word with you! Go to your room!" Gotta be the only avant garde housing market novel extant, or at least the only one set in Arizona. Plenty of well-crafted prose and might-get-caught sex in cars and in model homes on open-house days-- very American. The author blurbs his book himself: "I began this book in Rome in the mid fities.. about a young, detached man who suddenly takes over public relations for a mass housing firm in Arizona." Elevitch must have worked this little slice of life for twenty years.

Palisades, NY: First Person, 1976. Book. Fine. Soft cover. Signed by Author(s). 1st Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Stiff light brown wraps, spine panel lettered in black. Pictorial dust jacket shows slight chip along top front edge, otherwise as issued. 128 pp., illus. Signed by author on front flyleaf..