V.R. Lang: A Memoir by Alison Lurie - 1959

Munich: privately printed, 1950. First Edition of the author’s first book; one of 300 copies. Just about fine in the publisher’s wrappers and original glassine; front wrapper illustrated by Edward Gorey. Inscribed by James Merrill, underwriter of this publication, to his editor and literary executor.

Munich: self-published, 1959. 1st. Softcover. Very Good/None. 80 pages, bound in stiff paper wrappers illustrated by Edward Gorey. In an age-toned glassine wrapper. The paper spine has separated from the binding but sound and very repairable. Limited to 300 copies, this copy INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR to Nora and Roger(Roger Shattuck, literary historian and critic, and his wife). Record # 403398

1959. Limited Edition . Soft cover. Good. 80 pages. Novelist Alison Lurie's first book, self-published in Munich in a limited edition of 300 copies, is a memoir of her friend V.R. "Bunny" Lang, the Poets' Theater, and other parts of cultural life in and around Cambridge, Massachusetts in the early post-War years. Paperback, 6-3/4" x 9-1/2", white card wraps quite clean under original paper French-fold dust jacket with cover drawing by Lurie's friend Ted Gorey. The jacket is slightly soiled and age-toned, lacking the outer glassine layer. The text block is detached from the wraps (but pages remain bound together) and we have left to a future owner any decision on repair. Faint foxing to edges and end papers. Inscribed by the author on half-title, "For Warner and Ann with love Alison" - to Lurie's friends Profs. Warner and Ann Berthoff. No other marks within. From the library of Ann E. Berthoff.

LURIE, Alison. V. R. Lang. A Memoir. Orig. pictorial wraps. Munich: [Privately printed], 1959. 8vo. First edition of the Pulitzer Prize-winning author's first book. This memoir precedes her first novel by three years. Front wrap attractively illustrated by Edward Gorey. V. R. "Bunny" Lang (1924-56) was an American actress, playwright, poet, and a founder of the Poets' Theatre in Cambridge, MA. Fine in orig. glassine dustjacket with light wear to spine ends and short tear to front panel.

Munich: (np), 1959.. First edition.. 79 pp. Light patch of toning to rear cover, else fine in illustrated wrappers. Cover art by Edward Gorey. One of 300 copies. INSCRIBED by Lurie, “for Tony - also a gifted actor - / director - producer - and playwright - / Alison.” Lurie’s first book, a memoir of Bunny Lang.

Privately Printed, 1959. Limited Edition. Wraps. Near Fine. A nice association copy, inscribed by Lurie to fellow poet and academic William H, Matchett on the title page (with his bookplate to the verso of the front cover) and an inscribed Christmas photo of her, Jonathan Bishop, and John & Jeremy (sons) dated 1959; with a brief inscription on the back, laid in loose. Cover art by Edward Gorey (a good friend of both Lurie and Lang). One of only 300 copies printed (published by Lang's husband Bradley Phillips), and is the author's first book (nonfiction), a memoir of V. R. 'Bunny' Lang (1924-56). A nice clean copy in the publisher's glassine, about Fine.