Ps Wilkinson by Cdb Bryan (7 items)

New York: Harper & Row, 1965. Book. Fine. Hardcover. First Edition. First printing. A fine copy in a NF dust jacket with the price intact on the front flap..

New York: Harper and Row, 1965. very good hardcover with good dust jacket. First edition 1965. Hardcover. Very Good/Good.

New York: Harper & Row, 1965. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Later. Very good in very good dust jacket. Rough-cut pages, dust jacket is price-clipped, w/fraying on the top and light stains on the bottom, shelf-rubbing.

New York: Harper & Row, 1965. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. First edition. Very good in very good dust jacket. Book cover rubbed. Sticker on front panel page. Dustwrapper yellowed and rubbed.

Harper & Row, 1965. Book Club (BCE/BOMC) . Hardcover. Fine/Very Good. (Book Club edition) Slightly smaller book, red-brown and dark gray cloth, gilt just fair on spine, 441 pages. Author's first novel, winner of 1965 Harper Prize Novel Contest. DJ has color-illustration of man, photo of Bryan on back. DJ has very tiny nick near bottom front tip, light wear at top front tip, very tiny tear at spine top right edge. Very Good+ DJ/Very Fine book.

New York: Harper & Row, 1965. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. First edition. Cocked with toning on the top edge else very good in a very good spine darkened dustwrapper with toning and edgewear. Inscribed by the author. 1965 Harper Prize Novel.

5.5"x7.25" personalized stationery. Dated "March15, 1994." Bryan returns his correspondent's copy of "P.S. Wilkinson." "You were kind to read it again. I never have. I'm not sure why." Bryan chats about "The Great Dethriffe" which "disappeared utterly... a total sale of maybe 3500... then inexplicably in 1990 the Japanese bought it and it became a major success... maybe they thought it was "The Great Gatsby." "Beautiful Women, Ugly Scenes" "did very well, but I'm not happy with it." Since its publication "I've been doing mostly nonfiction and I'm particularly proud of "Friendly Fire (1976)." He mentions a forthcoming book "for Knopf on a bizarre topic: people who think they've been abducted by aliens.... Conclusion: they are not (underscored) crazy." He reveals that the theme of his three novels "led me to psychoanalysis..." and concludes with passing along the information that "Knopf wants a book on my parents (novel-form)" that "would refresh my memory." Bryan's step-father was John O'Hara. Signed… Read more