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NY: Random House, 1975. 1st. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Hardcover in a bright, lightly worn dust jacket. This is Lurie's tribute to Lang after Lang died of cancer at the age of 32. Lang was a gifted poet who was one of the founders of the Poet's Theatre in Cambridge, MA in the early 1950s. She also helped promote the works of young writers and artists including John Ashbery, Edward Gorey, Kenneth Koch, James Merrill, Frank O'Hara and Richard Wilbur. Book includes Lang's work as well as a lengthy memoir written by Lurie, an acclaimed author in her own right. Record # 382241

New York: Random House, 1975. Hardcover. Near Fine/Fine. First American edition. Offsetting on front fly, else fine in fine dust jacket. Invitation for a reception for Lurie laid in. Inscribed by Lurie to Tony Award-winning actress Marian Seldes.

Munich: privately printed by the author, 1959. 79 [i]pp. Limited to 300 copies only. Illustrated cover by Edward Gorey with a full page colour illustration. The Pullitzer prize-winners [1985] first book. Glascine wrapper still present but worn leaving a beautiful copy white illus. d.j. over card covers underneath. No inscriptions or marks. V. R. Lang was the founder of the Poets Theater in Cambridge, MA. (1924-56). limited ediiton. Soft Cover. Fine/Glascine Wrapper. large 8vo.

Munich: self-published, 1959. 1st. Softcover. Very Good/None. 80 pages, bound in stiff paper wrappers illustrated by Edward Gorey. In an age-toned glassine wrapper. The paper spine has separated from the binding but sound and very repairable. Limited to 300 copies, this copy INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR to Nora and Roger(Roger Shattuck, literary historian and critic, and his wife). Record # 403398

1959. Limited Edition . Soft cover. Good. 80 pages. Novelist Alison Lurie's first book, self-published in Munich in a limited edition of 300 copies, is a memoir of her friend V.R. "Bunny" Lang, the Poets' Theater, and other parts of cultural life in and around Cambridge, Massachusetts in the early post-War years. Paperback, 6-3/4" x 9-1/2", white card wraps quite clean under original paper French-fold dust jacket with cover drawing by Lurie's friend Ted Gorey. The jacket is slightly soiled and age-toned, lacking the outer glassine layer. The text block is detached from the wraps (but pages remain bound together) and we have left to a future owner any decision on repair. Faint foxing to edges and end papers. Inscribed by the author on half-title, "For Warner and Ann with love Alison" - to Lurie's friends Profs. Warner and Ann Berthoff. No other marks within. From the library of Ann E. Berthoff.

Munich: (np), 1959.. First edition.. 79 pp. Light patch of toning to rear cover, else fine in illustrated wrappers. Cover art by Edward Gorey. One of 300 copies. INSCRIBED by Lurie, “for Tony - also a gifted actor - / director - producer - and playwright - / Alison.” Lurie’s first book, a memoir of Bunny Lang.

Privately Printed, 1959. Limited Edition. Wraps. Near Fine. A nice association copy, inscribed by Lurie to fellow poet and academic William H, Matchett on the title page (with his bookplate to the verso of the front cover) and an inscribed Christmas photo of her, Jonathan Bishop, and John & Jeremy (sons) dated 1959; with a brief inscription on the back, laid in loose. Cover art by Edward Gorey (a good friend of both Lurie and Lang). One of only 300 copies printed (published by Lang's husband Bradley Phillips), and is the author's first book (nonfiction), a memoir of V. R. 'Bunny' Lang (1924-56). A nice clean copy in the publisher's glassine, about Fine.