DICKEY, James. Deliverance. London: Hamish Hamilton. 1970. 8vo. First British edition. Publisher’s blue cloth lettered in gilt to the spine, with bright red topstain and in the dust jacket designed by Bernard Higton with a photograph of Dickey to rear panel by Christopher Dickey, the author’s somewhat estranged son who later wrote a biography of his father’s life and his particular skillset in the art of embellishment. The book generally fine, the cloth clean and bright, the binding tight and square, the textblock just a trifle spotted at the edges, but the contents fine. The dust jacket unclipped (£1.50 net/30s net) and complete, very negligibly bumped at the spine foot and some corners, but an overall fine copy.
Dickey’s most famous and most successful work, his debut novel that surfaced a few years into his Poet Laureate status; he was previously known strictly as a poet. The famous tale of four businessmen whose leisurely stroll along a north Georgian river goes quite a bit more than awry. Adapted for the screen in an excellent, now-cultish film of the same name starring Jon Voight, Burt Reynolds, Ned Beatty, and Ronny Cox.
DICKEY, James. Deliverance. London: Hamish Hamilton. 1970. 8vo. First British edition. Publisher’s blue cloth lettered in gilt to the spine, with bright red topstain and in the dust jacket designed by Bernard Higton with a photograph of Dickey to rear panel by Christopher Dickey, the author’s somewhat estranged son who later wrote a biography of his father’s life and his particular skillset in the art of embellishment. The book generally fine, the cloth clean and bright, the binding tight and square, the textblock just a trifle spotted at the edges, but the contents fine. The dust jacket unclipped (£1.50 net/30s net) and complete, very negligibly bumped at the spine foot and some corners, but an overall fine copy.
Dickey’s most famous and most successful work, his debut novel that surfaced a few years into his Poet Laureate status; he was previously known strictly as a poet. The famous tale of four businessmen whose leisurely stroll along a north Georgian river goes quite a bit more than awry. Adapted for the screen in an excellent, now-cultish film of the same name starring Jon Voight, Burt Reynolds, Ned Beatty, and Ronny Cox.
