PASSION PLAY; Jerzy Kosinski
New York: St. Martin's Press, 1979. Kosinski. First Edition. Cloth and boards. SIGNED by the Author on the front free endpaper, 8vo, black quarter cloth with silver lettering on spine over red boards, archival mylar-protected pictorial dust jacket (unclipped) depicting a mounted polo player striking, [xiv] + 271 pages + [2] About the Author. Very Fine / Very Fine. Item #4662
ISBN: 0312597835
Born in Poland as Józef Lewinkopf,, Jerzy Kosinski (1933-1991), began his writing career around 1960 using the pseudonym "Joseph Novak." Soon the Polish Communist Party black-listed him. Not long after, under his own Americanized pen-name "Kosinski," his big break came with the novel The Painted Bird (1965) about a boy surviving the Nazis. His bestselling novel Steps (1968) won the National Book Award. Being There (1970) and was made into a movie.
Other noteworthy titles include; Cockpit (1975); Blind Date (1977); and Passion Play (1979).
Very Fine: tight, clean, bright copy in a sharp dj with a bold SIGNATURE diagonally across the ffe.
Price: $45.00