JOHNSON, Bryan Stanley. The Unfortunates. London: Panther Books in association with Secker and Warburg. 1969. 8vo. First edition. Twenty-seven separate staple-bound sections, with the original band, housed in the publisher’s pictorial box. A very good copy, the sections clean, very gently creased to a few edges, the band present and clean. The box rubbed along the hinge as per usual, a trifle faded at the spine, but structurally secure and the front panel very clean.
BSJ’s avant garde novel, his most well-known book, aided by its physical construction; a book-in-a-box. All but two (the first and last) sections are to be read by any which way the reader chooses. An excellent marketing ploy, for sure, but which does not detract from BSJ’s magnetic prose style—this is one of his finest, based on his real-life relationship with his great friend, Tony Tillinghast.
JOHNSON, Bryan Stanley. The Unfortunates. London: Panther Books in association with Secker and Warburg. 1969. 8vo. First edition. Twenty-seven separate staple-bound sections, with the original band, housed in the publisher’s pictorial box. A very good copy, the sections clean, very gently creased to a few edges, the band present and clean. The box rubbed along the hinge as per usual, a trifle faded at the spine, but structurally secure and the front panel very clean.
BSJ’s avant garde novel, his most well-known book, aided by its physical construction; a book-in-a-box. All but two (the first and last) sections are to be read by any which way the reader chooses. An excellent marketing ploy, for sure, but which does not detract from BSJ’s magnetic prose style—this is one of his finest, based on his real-life relationship with his great friend, Tony Tillinghast.
