Description
For sale: a Rare and Exceptional first hardcover edition, first printing of Homer and Langley by E. L. Doctorow with an unclipped dust jacket protected in a new archival wrap.
The book is in Near Fine condition with clean, bright boards, strong title gilt on a straight spine, clean page blocks, tight binding, mild spine tilt, rolled spine ends, mild edge wear, and lightly rubbed corners. The interior of the book is also in Near Fine condition with the previous owner’s name on the first free end paper. No other marks, inscriptions, or other signs of ownership inside. The rear end paper and the interior pages are clean and lightly toned.
The dust jacket is in Very Good condition with moderate surface wear, heavy edge wear, chips, gaps, and the $26.00 price on the front flap. Looks great in a new Brodart archival wrap.
Homer and Langley Collyer are brothers – the one blind and deeply intuitive, the other damaged into madness, or perhaps greatness, by mustard gas in the Great War. They live as recluses in their once grand Fifth Avenue mansion, scavenging the city streets for things they think they can use, hoarding the daily newspapers as research for Langley’s proposed dateless newspaper whose reportage will be as prophecy.
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