Item #54266 LOT OF SEVEN BOOKS, EACH ONE INSCRIBED TO POET LOUIS DANIEL BRODSKY: Color of Darkness; Malcolm; The Nephew; Children Is All. James Purdy.
LOT OF SEVEN BOOKS, EACH ONE INSCRIBED TO POET LOUIS DANIEL BRODSKY: Color of Darkness; Malcolm; The Nephew; Children Is All.

LOT OF SEVEN BOOKS, EACH ONE INSCRIBED TO POET LOUIS DANIEL BRODSKY: Color of Darkness; Malcolm; The Nephew; Children Is All.

(New York, et al: Farrar; New Directions; et al, 1959 - 1962). A mix of first edition hardcovers, later printings and paperbacks, all of which are INSCRIBED by Purdy to Brodsky. COLOR OF DARKNESS, (New York): New Directions, (1957), second printing, INSCRIBED, "For Louis Brodsky with sincere good wishes from James Purdy," fine in fine dust jacket with minor edge rubbing. COLOR OF DARKNESS, Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott Co., 1961, first paperback edition, adding an introduction by Dame Edith Sitwell, INSCRIBED, "...with good luck...," touch of minor edge wear still fine in printed paperwraps. MALCOLM, New York: Farrar, Straus & Cudahy (1959). No statement, so assume a later printing, INSCRIBED, "...with the best wishes...," fine in near fine dust jacket with small chip to rear panel. MALCOLM, New York: Avon, (1959), first paperback edition, INSCRIBED, "...with sincere wishes...," fine in pictorial paperwraps. THE NEPHEW, New York: Farrar, Straus & Cudahy, (1960), first edition, INSCRIBED, "...with sincere wishes...," fine in fine dust jacket. THE NEPHEW, New York: Avon, (1960), first paperback edition, INSCRIBED, "...sincere good wishes...," fine in pictorial paperwraps. CHILDREN IS ALL, (Norfolk): New Directions, (1962), presumed first edition, without statement otherwise, INSCRIBED, "...sincere good wishes...," fine in very good to near fine dust jacket with rubbed creasing to head of spine and two closed tears. ASSOCIATION COPIES, INSCRIBED.
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