BARTHELME, Donald. Come Back, Dr. Caligari. London: Eyre & Spottiswoode. 1966. 8vo. First British edition. Publisher’s blue cloth lettered in gilt to the spine, in the dust jacket by Milton Glaser. The cloth clean and bright, the binding tight and square, the contents mostly clean, some patchy toning to the endpapers with pencil indentations to the front endpaper, else fine. The dust jacket unclipped (18s net) and complete, just slightly browned at extremities with light patchy toning to the flaps. A smart, near fine copy overall.
The first published work by the somewhat neglected postmodernist short story writer, a precursor to his excellent Sixty Stories (1981) and Forty Stories (1987), both of which cemented him as one of the best American short story writers working in the twentieth century. The UK edition published two years after the American first, using the same stylish Glaser jacket design.
BARTHELME, Donald. Come Back, Dr. Caligari. London: Eyre & Spottiswoode. 1966. 8vo. First British edition. Publisher’s blue cloth lettered in gilt to the spine, in the dust jacket by Milton Glaser. The cloth clean and bright, the binding tight and square, the contents mostly clean, some patchy toning to the endpapers with pencil indentations to the front endpaper, else fine. The dust jacket unclipped (18s net) and complete, just slightly browned at extremities with light patchy toning to the flaps. A smart, near fine copy overall.
The first published work by the somewhat neglected postmodernist short story writer, a precursor to his excellent Sixty Stories (1981) and Forty Stories (1987), both of which cemented him as one of the best American short story writers working in the twentieth century. The UK edition published two years after the American first, using the same stylish Glaser jacket design.
