VIEWS AND REVIEWS: A SELECTION OF UNCOLLECTED ARTICLES 1884-1932

NEW YORK NY: HOUGHTON MIFFLIN CO. VG+/NONE. PUB 1932. FIRST EDITION. ISBN: SIGNED "SAUL GORDON BELLOW / CHICAGO / 1936" AT THE TOP OF THE FRONT. ISBN: FREE ENDPAPER WHEN BELLOW WAS 21 YEARS OLD. BOOKS OF THIS VINTAGE FROM BELLOW'S PERSONAL LIBRARY ARE RARELYENCOUNTERED IN THE MARKETPLACE AND I HAVE NEVER SEEN ONE WHERE HE USESHIS MIDDLE NAME "GORDON" IN HIS SIGNATURE. THIS BOOK WAS IN BELLOW'SLIBRARY WHEN HE WAS AT NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY AND PRECEDES HIS FIRSTPUBLISHED STORY "TWO MORNING MONOLOGUES" BY 5 YEARS. APPARENTLY WHILEDOING GRADUATE WORK AT THE UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN IN MADISON IN 1937 HEDECIDED TO BECOME A WRITER AND LEFT MADISON AT THE END OF 1937 TO RETURNTO CHICAGO AND WORK ON THE WPA WRITERS'PROJECT AND ULTIMATELY BECOME ANOBEL LAUREATE IN 1976. BOOK IS LIGHTLY WORN AT THE SPINE-ENDS WITH GILTSPINE TITLES PARTIALLY PERISHED.. Keywords: SIGNED, ABCDEF.