HUMBOLDT'S GIFT; a novel
New York: The Viking Press, 1975. First Edition [printing not specified & presumed first]. Cloth and boards. SIGNED by the Author on a publisher's tipped-in front endpaper, tall 8vo (9 1/4" x 6" x 1 3/4"), gold quarter cloth with black lettering on spine over yellow boards,archival m ylar-protected lettered yellow dust jacket (unclipped) by Mel Williamson, gold endpapers, 487 pages. Weight: 1 lb. 11 oz. Krochs & Brentanos' "1st Edition Circle" bookmark. Like New / Near Fine. Item #8661
ISBN: 0670386553
SIGNED by the Author & in SUPERIOR CONDITION. Very tight, bright, immaculate copy in comparable dust jacket (unclipped) with minute edgewear and hint of sunning to the upper edge and spine of the dj.
Saul Bellow (1915 – 2005) was a Canadian-American writer. For his literary work, Bellow was awarded the Pulitzer Prize, the Nobel Prize for Literature, and the National Medal of Arts. He is the only writer to win the National Book Award for Fiction three times and he received the National Book Foundation's lifetime Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters in 1990.
In the words of the Swedish Nobel Committee, his writing exhibited "the mixture of rich picaresque novel and subtle analysis of our culture, of entertaining adventure, drastic and tragic episodes in quick succession interspersed with philosophic conversation, all developed by a commentator with a witty tongue and penetrating insight into the outer and inner complications that drive us to act, or prevent us from acting, and that can be called the dilemma of our age."
His best-known works include The Adventures of Augie March, Henderson the Rain King, Herzog, Mr. Sammler's Planet, Seize the Day, HUMBOLDT'S GIFT, and Ravelstein. Widely regarded as one of the 20th century's greatest authors, Bellow has had a "huge literary influence."
HUMBOLDT'S GIFT is a 1975 novel by Canadian-American author Saul Bellow. Parts originally appeared in Playboy magazine. The novel won the 1976 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction and contributed to Bellow's winning the Nobel Prize in Literature the same year.
The novel, which Bellow initially intended to be a short story, is a roman à clef about Bellow's friendship with the poet Delmore Schwartz. It explores the changing relationship of art and power in a materialist America.--Wikipedia
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