Attacks Taste, First Edition (4 results)

Unbound. Condition: Fine. Publisher's advertisement. One sheet of Gotham Book Mart letterhead printed on both sides. Fine. The recto prints two questions: "Which book or books were your favorites or influenced you most as a teenager and why?" and "How would the following people respond?," followed by a list of 40 names including, to name a few, Auden, Bowles, Ishwerwood, Creeley, Dos Passos, Durrell, Ginsberg, Kerouac, Mailer, Moore, Updike, Vidal, and Williams (Tennessee). The verso prints eleven lines of information about the book.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. First Edition. First Edition. Hardcover. Signed by Author(s). First Edition Limited to 500 copies Signed by the Editors. A fine copy in beige cloth, paper label to the spine and front board in a near fine unprinted dustwrapper. 8vo. 63 pp. An eclectic selection of authors write about their favourite authors. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Signed by Author(s).

Hardcover. First Edition. Edition limited to 500 copies. Tan cloth with paper labels lettered and decorated in black and red affixed to front cover and spine. A fine copy in near fine plain white dustjacket with a closed tear to upper edge of front panel and a couple of nicks. Signed by Penzler and Byrne on the limitation page. The first 100 copies of this title were for presentation only and not for sale. This is copy no. 7 and is signed and inscribed by Otto Penzler on the flyleaf: "For Walter T. Shirley - On the auspicious occasion of his acquisition of first books by two writers - Raymond Chandler and Otto Penzler." Also comes with a later Christmas card signed by Penzler. A compilation of the thoughts of writers such as Agatha Christie, Jack Kerouac, P. G. Wodehouse, J. R. R. Tolkien, John Updike and many others on their early literary influences. A lovely copy. ; Octavo; Signed by All Authors.

Evelyn B. Byrne, Otto M. Penzler, editors.Attacks of Taste.New York: Gotham Book Mart, 1971. Limited edition, No. 222 of 500 numbered copies. Signed by Evelyn B. Byrne and Otto M. Penzler (to limitation page), additionally signed and inscribed by Otto Penzler to half-title:The first copy of my first book that I've seen in years! Octavo. 63pp. Publisher's tan cloth hardcover boards, paper labels to front and spine, brown endpapers. From the collection of Larry McMurtry, at his home in Archer City, Texas. His book, with personal brand-mark bookplate. . Extremities gently rubbed, else fine. LMM-276.