Saul BellowBiblio.com
Saul BellowBiblio.com
Humboldt's Gift
1975réf. 1114New York: The Viking Press 1975. Very Good/Good. First edition first printing. Octavo. Original mustard cloth spine over brown-purple paper-covered boards with black spine lettering and red rule in the original dust jacket. Interior pages unmarked. Pronounced chipping and short tears along the upper edge of dust jacket including loss at the upper front spine corner. Some rubbing surface soiling edge creasing and wear at the spine ends. A rectangular area of color variation is visible near the upper right front panel. Binding sound. Saul Bellow's eighth novel Humboldt's Gift explores the friendship and rivalry between writer Charlie Citrine and poet Von Humboldt Fleisher a character inspired in part by Bellow's relationship with Delmore Schwartz. The novel won the 1976 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction and stands among Bellow's major works of postwar American literature. N1. The Viking Press unknown
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