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Salzman, Mark : Lost In Place: Growing Up Absurd In Suburbia

Random House, New York City, NY, 1995

ISBN 0679439455

First Edition / First Printing. Fine in Fine Dust Jacket. 269 pages. The author's memoir on childhood. Now considered a contemporary classic. The First Hardcover Edition. Precedes and should not be confused with all other subsequent editions. Published in a small and limited first print run as a hardcover original only. The First Edition is now scarce. Presents Mark Salzman's "Lost In Place". An enchanting and poignant account of his atypical childhood. "Looks back to his tortured youth with self-deprecating humor and wistful fondness. The oldest child in a middle-class household in Connecticut, the son of a piano teacher and a social worker, by age six the author was an eccentric with enormous aspirations - none of them ever fulfilled - who stood out not only from his more conventional parents, brother, and sister, but from everyone else in his suburban neighborhood. A hilarious memoir in the tradition of Russell Baker's 'Growing Up' " (Publisher's blurb). Salzman's now-considerable body of work has two underlying themes: The meaning of self-education, which involves the give-and-take between a great teacher and a brilliant protege, and the persistence of hope despite the possibility that not all of one's dreams may ever be fulfilled. An absolute "must-have" title for Mark Salzman collectors. This copy is very prominently, neatly, and beautifully signed and dated (in the month and year of publication) in black ink-pen on the title page by the author: "Aug 30 1995 Mark Salzman". It is signed directly on the page itself, not on a tipped-in page. This title is now collectible. As far as we know, this is the only such signed and publication-month dated copy of the First Hardcover Edition/First Printing available online and is in especially fine condition: Clean, crisp, and bright, a pristine beauty. Please note: Copies available online have serious flaws. Random House "true first" indications in the 20th century are "First Edition" followed by a number line that begins with 2 (instead of 1), a practice that the publisher did not change until the mid-2000's, and even then, on a very inconsistent basis at best. A scarce signed copy thus. Finalist of the Pulitzer Prize in 1986 for "Iron & Silk". One of the most brilliant American writers of our time. A fine copy. (SEE ALSO OTHER MARK SALZMAN TITLES IN OUR CATALOG). ISBN 0679439455.

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