Primary Colors: A Novel of Politics

New York, NY: Random House, 1996 Random House, New York. 1996. Hardcover. 8th Printing by Line Number. Book is tight, square, and unmarked. Book Condition: Near Fine; light bump to lower rear tip; newspaper clipping identifying the real people to their characters taped to the rear pastedown. DJ: Near Fine; NOT Price Clipped ($24.00); light bumping to lower tips. Blue paper over boards with black cloth overlay on the spine with bright red lettering on the spine. 366 pp 8vo. This is a book by columnist Joe Klein, published anonymously, about the presidential campaign of a southern governor. It is a roman à clef (a work of fiction based on real people and events) about Bill Clinton's first presidential campaign in 1992. The story spans the novelistic spectrum from bedroom farce to high moral drama, and it paints a picture of the political state of the nation so vivid and authentic that one finds in it the deepest kind of truth- the kind of truth that only fiction can tell. A clean very presentable copy.