Buy this book on-line MITCHELL, JOSEPH: : JOE GOULD'S SECRETLONDON.JONATHAN CAPE,1997. ISBN 0224051075.
UK,12mo HB+dw/dj,1st edn.[Complete number line 2 4 6 8 10 9 7 5 3 1.] NFINE/VG.No owner inscrptn but a circular blue ink (owner/library?) stamp with Chinese lettering within and no price-clip to dw/dj.Bright,clean,matt,black background with a superimposed colour photographic image of a seagull in flight,to upper panel of dw/dj,with white lettering and critics' reviews to rear panel; with some negligible shelf-wear and creasing to edges and corners - no major nicks or tears present.Majority of light creasing is to top edges of the dw/dj,along with head of spine/backstrip of same,minimally bumped with reciprocal creasing too.Both panels of dw/dj with light,superficial scoring - but without affecting boards beneath.Top edge lightly dust-soiled with some minimal spotting and very slight ageing,fore-edges generally brighter and cleaner; contents bright,tight,clean - near pristine - no dog-ear reading creases to any pages' corners,appears unread - apart from my own collation.Publisher's bright,crisp,clean, generally sharp-cornered - apart from 2 bottom corners which are lightly bumped - original plain black cloth boards with bright,crisp, blocked gilt letters to spine/backstrip,a blue+ white headband and otherwise immaculate (ink stamp excluded) plain blue endpapers.UK,12mo HB+ dw/dj,1st edn,v-viipp+3-186pp [paginated] includes a potted biography of the subject Joseph Mitchell,two of his previously written articles for 'The New Yorker' twenty-two years apart; plus [unpaginated] half-title page with subject's contemporary b/w portrait photographic illustrated frntis to it's verso,title page,a title separator page,a dedication,author's note, contents list/table,a b/w line illustrated article separator page,and a double-page b/w line illustrated separator pages for 2nd article - both illustrated by Saul Steinberg,6pp blanks at rear.An accidental,small dog-ear/diagonal crease to bottom corner of last blank.
From author's note: The book consists of two views of the same man,a lost soul named Joe Gould.Both wee written as Profiles for 'The New Yorker'.The first,"Professor Sea Gull",in 1942, and came out in the issue of December 12,1942. Twenty-two years later,in 1964,the 2nd was written "Joe Gould's Secret," and it came out in the issues of Sept 19 and 26,1964.
Joe Mitchell died May 24,1996.
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