BARTHELME, Donald. Snow White. London: Jonathan Cape. 1968. 8vo. First British edition. Publisher’s review copy with review slip loosely inserted. Publisher’s black cloth lettered in gilt to the spine, in the superbly decadent wraparound dust jacket designed by Christopher Bradbury. A near fine copy. The cloth clean and bright, very mild vertical crease to backstrip. A few mild marks to board edges, the binding tight and square. Topstain vivid, with a few light marks to other edges. The contents clean and fine but for one or two singular spots. The dust jacket unclipped (21s net), a trifle crimped to extremities with light marks to rear panel, but a pleasing copy.
Barthelme’s first novel. A wild and improbable extravaganza renovating the traditional fairytale to newly fantastical heights. The book and the dust jacket sit quite perfectly in the publisher’s canon in this brief but mighty period of sickly sweet, innovative fiction. Scarce.
BARTHELME, Donald. Snow White. London: Jonathan Cape. 1968. 8vo. First British edition. Publisher’s review copy with review slip loosely inserted. Publisher’s black cloth lettered in gilt to the spine, in the superbly decadent wraparound dust jacket designed by Christopher Bradbury. A near fine copy. The cloth clean and bright, very mild vertical crease to backstrip. A few mild marks to board edges, the binding tight and square. Topstain vivid, with a few light marks to other edges. The contents clean and fine but for one or two singular spots. The dust jacket unclipped (21s net), a trifle crimped to extremities with light marks to rear panel, but a pleasing copy.
Barthelme’s first novel. A wild and improbable extravaganza renovating the traditional fairytale to newly fantastical heights. The book and the dust jacket sit quite perfectly in the publisher’s canon in this brief but mighty period of sickly sweet, innovative fiction. Scarce.
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