An Evening Performance

Garden City: Doubleday & Company, 1985. First printing. Hardcover. Near Fine/very good. First edition, 1985. Cloth-backed boards in dust jacket, 518 pp., clean unmarked text, Near Fine copy in Very Good dust jacket, light discoloration to the page-edges, dust jacket with minor soil or discoloration, light rubbing or wear to the edges of the dust jacket including some creasing and a bit of tearing. Dust jacket housed in archival dust jacket protector. Signed by Garrett on the titlepage and inscribed by him to Matt Bruccoli--Bruccoli's initials in his own hand on the front flyleaf. Matthew Joseph Bruccoli (1931-2008) was the foremost F. Scott Fitzgerald scholar and bibliographer of his time. Additionally, he wrote on, and edited critical editions of Hemingway, Hammett, Cozzens, Thomas Wolfe, John O'Hara, and Vladimir Nabokov. He studied bibliography under the tutelage of Fredson Bowers and worked with Jacob Blanck on the Bibliography of American Literature. He was responsible for the republication and rediscovery of dozens of forgotten American novels, and went on to be the editor and publisher of the 400+ volume Dictionary of Literary Biography, and was the chief editor of the University of Pittsburgh Press bibliography series.