Fans Notes by Frederick Exley: First Edition (44 results)
- Hardcover
- First Edition
Seller: Burm Booksellers, Beckley, WV, U.S.A.Burm Booksellers
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Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Hardcover. First Edition/2nd printing [per number line]. DJ: nominal edge wear. Quarter blue/blue boards with silver gilt upper & spine text. Light soil/spotting. May have other minor incidental cosmetic defects expected with age. A Fan's Notes, #3. FICTI…ON/SERIES.
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- First Edition
Seller: Northmont Books and Stamps, Farmington Hills., MI, U.S.A.Northmont Books and Stamps
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Paperback. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. A good clean collectible copy.
Language: English
Published by Ballantine Books, New York 1969
- Softcover
- First Edition
Seller: Blue Moon Books, Stevens Point, WI, U.S.A.Blue Moon Books
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Mass Market Paperback. Condition: Good. First Mass Market Paperback. Good. Mass market paperback first edition. Some staining and soiling to covers and spine. Light creasing to covers and browning to pages. 95 cent price on front cover. 01705.
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Published by The Modern Library (Random House), New York 1997
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- First Edition
Seller: The Archives, Manassas, VA, U.S.A.The Archives
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Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. Frederick Exley's A Fan's Notes (1968) is widely regarded as one of the landmark works of American autobiographical fiction. Blending memoir, novel, and confession, Exley chronicles alcoholism, mental illness, failed ambitions, football obsession, an…d mid-century American masculinity through the experiences of a narrator closely resembling the author himself. The book was nominated for the National Book Award, received the William Faulkner Award for best first novel, and has since achieved cult-classic status. This 1997 Modern Library edition includes an introduction by Jonathan Yardley, Exley's biographer and longtime Washington Post literary critic. Book is Near Fine with clean gray cloth boards with bright gilt spine lettering, square binding, sound hinges, and clean acid-free pages. No ownership markings, bookplates, remainder marks, or notable internal defects. Dust jacket is Near Fine and is unclipped, bright, and complete with only light shelf wear and minor handling evidence visible. An attractive collector's copy of a Modern Library literary classic. Modern Library edition published 1997. Copyright page states '1997 Modern Library Edition' and carries number line 4 6 8 9 7 5 3, with the lowest number '3' indicating a third printing. Gray cloth binding with torchbearer device blind-stamped on front board and matching Modern Library dust jacket present. Frederick Exley (1929-1992) was an American novelist whose reputation rests primarily on A Fan's Notes, a deeply personal and stylistically distinctive work often compared to the writings of Thomas Wolfe, F. Scott Fitzgerald, and Charles Bukowski. Though he published only a small number of books, his unflinching exploration of failure, obsession, and self-destruction earned him a devoted following and a lasting place in postwar American literature. Jonathan Yardley (1939-2025) was an influential American literary critic, editor, and columnist best known for his long career at The Washington Post, where he served as book critic and later as a columnist. Widely respected for his clear, accessible criticism, Yardley won the Pulitzer Prize for Criticism in 1981 for his distinguished commentary on literature and American culture. A champion of overlooked and underappreciated writers, Yardley frequently wrote about neglected classics and literary reputations that deserved reconsideration. He became one of Frederick Exley's most prominent advocates and later wrote Misfit: The Strange Life of Frederick Exley (1997), the first full-length biography of the author. His introduction to this Modern Library edition of A Fan's Notes reflects both his admiration for Exley's work and his deep familiarity with the author's turbulent life.
Language: English
Published by Modern Library - Random House 1997
- Hardcover
- First Edition
Seller: Read Books, Los Angeles, CA, U.S.A.Read Books
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Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. First Thus. 1st Printing of 1st Modern Library Edition (1997). Very Good book in Near Fine DJ. Unclipped dust jacket, protected by mylar cover, is clean and bright with no rips. Gray cloth boards with gilt-stamped titles are clean and sturdy with very minor sunni…ng along bottom edge. Pages clean and unmarked with no rips or creases. Quick, secure shipping with free delivery confirmation from Los Angeles bookstore. Photos available upon request.
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- First Edition
Seller: Callaghan Books South, New Port Richey, FL, U.S.A.Callaghan Books South
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Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. Smaller, sturdy book, gray cloth, very bright gilt lettering on spine, a logo design inside covers and adjacent end papers, 425 pages, blue ink notes on reverse of final end paper. DJ beneath mylar, a color photo close-up of author on front, silver spine…and front right, darker blue back. Very Fine DJ/Near Fine book.
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Published by Harper & Row, New York 1968
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- First Edition
Seller: Interstellar Bookseller, Birmingham, AL, U.S.A.Interstellar Bookseller
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Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 1st Edition. From the personal collection of Dr. Don Noble, Professor Emeritus of the University of Alabama and the host of Alabama Public Television's 'Bookmark' author interview program. Orange boards, purple cloth spine, silver/black stamp. Light wear/foxing to DJ…with some small chips/closed tears at edges but intact under mylar; small sale pricing stickers on front flap & corner. Don Noble's signed bookplate on front free-endpaper. Book exhibits signs of previous but respectful readings but hinges are tight and the block is clean within. Newspaper clipping [undated NYT biosketch of the author following his death] laid in. Terrific association copy. Additional details and photos happily provided upon request.
Language: English
Published by Harper & Row, New York 1968
- Hardcover
- First Edition
Seller: Bill's Books, Annapolis, MD, U.S.A.Bill's Books
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Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. First Edition. Protected jacket has some slight chipping at top and bottom of spine, and a tiny chip on the bottom right crner in front, otherwise the jacket is in excellent shape, the colors are bright and the images sharp: a striking drawing on the front and the aut…hor's photo on the back. The price of $6.95 is intact. The binding is straight, the pages are clean and unmarked. A true first editiion and so stated. It is also a true review copy, with publication date notice and a hand-written note on a card from Stuart Harris at Harper & Row stating, "This is quite an exciting book!" In sum, this is a superbly collectible copy of a classic of Sixties literature which is now extremely rare to find in this condition.
Language: English
Published by Harper & Row, New York 1968
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- First Edition
Seller: Manchester By The Book, Manchester-By-the-Sea, MA, U.S.A.Manchester By The Book
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Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Stated First Edition. No markings. Dust jacket has small pieces missing from the edges, tape repair to tear on back top, $6.95 on the front flap, in a protective cover.
Language: English
Published by Harper & Row, Publishers, New York 1968
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- First Edition
Seller: Courtside Books, Medford, NJ, U.S.A.Courtside Books
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Soft cover. Condition: Fine. No Jacket. 1st Edition. 1st Edition. Advance Review Copy. Slight rubbing to edges else fine in red and black printed wrappers. An uncommonly lovely copy.
Published by Harper & Row 1968
- Hardcover
- First Edition
Seller: Jackson Street Booksellers, Omaha, NE, U.S.A.Jackson Street Booksellers
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Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. Near Fine copy in hardcover with Near Fine jacket. Light shelf-wear. Tiny chip to edge of jacket near top, front flap.
Published by Harper & Row: NY 1968
- Softcover
- First Edition
Seller: John K King Used & Rare Books, Detroit, MI, U.S.A.John K King Used & Rare Books
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Paperback. Condition: Very Good. 8 x 5.5", wraps, 385pp, minor wear. Recipient of the William Faulkner award for best first novel and was a finalist for the National Book Award for this title. FIRST EDITION, ADVANCE READING COPY OF AUTHOR'S FIRST BOOK.
Published by N.Y. Harper & Row 1968. 1968
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- First Edition
Seller: Pettler & Lieberman, Booksellers, Los Angeles, CA, U.S.A.Pettler & Lieberman, Booksellers
Contact seller3-star sellerADVANCE READING COPY of AUTHOR'S ACCLAIMED 1ST BOOK, "FIRST EDITION" stated on copyright page, printed red wrappers a bit worn at extremeties, slight spine slant, a little soil to front endpaper & verso of front wrapper. 1st edition.
Published by Harper & Row 1968
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- First Edition
Seller: Glands of Destiny First Edition Books, Sedro Woolley, WA, U.S.A.Glands of Destiny First Edition Books
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Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Publisher: Harper & Row, New York, 1968. FINE- hardcover book in NEAR FINE mylar-protected, price-clipped dust-jacket. Previous owner's signature on upper left corner of the FFEP. Tiny bit of wear at DJ's spine ends. Not remainder marked. First Edition, First Printing.
Published by Harper & Row, New York 1968
- Hardcover
- First Edition
Seller: J. F. Whyland Books, Jeffersonville, IN, U.S.A.J. F. Whyland Books
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Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. First printing of the first edition (stated). The author's FIRST BOOK. A fine copy in near fine dust jacket. LR.
Published by Harper & Row, New York 1968
- Hardcover
- First Edition
Seller: KULTURAs books, Los Angeles, CA, U.S.A.KULTURAs books
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Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Near Fine. Stated First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover with dust jacket. First printing of first edition. Purple cloth spine on orange boards, bright, shelf wear and mild age toning to edges. Protected, price unclipped, dustjacket is bright, with shelf wear to edges, nicks and chips to spine ends.… Book is firm in binding, clean interior. Free of any markings, not ex-library. ; 12mo 7" - 7½" tall; 385 pages.
Published by London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson. 1970
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- First Edition
- Signed
Seller: LUCIUS BOOKS (ABA, ILAB, PBFA), York, United KingdomLUCIUS BOOKS (ABA, ILAB, PBFA)
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First UK edition, first printing. Publisher's original grey cloth with gilt titles to the spine, in the James Spanfeller illustrated dustwrapper. Avery good or better copy, the binding square and firm with a little bumping at the spine tips, the cloth bright and fresh. The contents, with the signed bookplate of Peter B. Messent…(author and Professor of Modern American Literature) to the front pastedown, are clean throughout. Complete with the lightly rubbed dustwrapper that is a little nicked at the spine tips and is otherwise bright and without loss. Not price-clipped (35s / £1.75 to the lower front flap). The author's first book, a cult classic. Sub-titled a 'fictional memoir', the novel is based on the author's real struggle as a New York Giants fan, complicated by alcohol abuse and mental illness. The book formed the basis for the 1972 Palme d'Or nominated film of the same name directed by Eric Till, starring Jerry Orbach and Patricia Collins. Further details and images for any of the items listed are available on request. Lucius Books welcomes direct contact with our customers.
Published by Weidenfeld & Nicolson 1970
- First Edition
Seller: Surrey Hills Books, Cranleigh, United KingdomSurrey Hills Books
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First English Edition. Very good condition. No dust jacket. Book.
More imagesPublished by Harper and Row, New York 1968
- Hardcover
- First Edition
Seller: Cleveland Book Company, ABAA, Rocky River, OH, U.S.A.Cleveland Book Company, ABAA
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Hardcover. Condition: Fine. near fine. First Edition. Octavo, 385pp. A fine, fresh, absolutely lovely copy in the publisher's deep orange boards with purple cloth spine, and rich black topstain. Thinnest strip of fading to the bottom edges of the boards, else very sharp. In a very near fine dust jacket, with a small area of fadi…ng to the bottom edge and the bottom quarter of the fore-edge, and shallow nicks to the crown. With these noted flaws, still a most attractive copy. Exley's almost entirely fictional memoir of his life as an obsessive fan of the New York Giants, with detours into the world of psychosis, psychiatric treatment, alcoholism, and social instability. Though the narrative is fictional, Exley's experience of institutionalization, his troubled life, and his struggles with mental illness and alcoholism informed much of the content.
More imagesPublished by Harper & Row, New York 1968
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- First Edition
Seller: Dan Pope Books, West Hartford, CT, U.S.A.Dan Pope Books
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Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. New York, Harper & Row, 1968. First edition. First printing. Hardbound. Fine in a fine jacket. A clean tight copy. Jacket has a tiny closed tear at head of spine and some very slight edge-wear. Publisher's price intact on front jacket flap ($6.95). Comes with…archival-quality mylar jacket protector. Smoke-free. The author's first book.
Published by HARPER & ROW. NY 1968 1968
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- First Edition
Seller: WAVERLEY BOOKS ABAA, Santa Monica, CA, U.S.A.WAVERLEY BOOKS ABAA
Contact seller4-star sellerSoftcover. First Edition. ADVANCE READING COPY. Fine, but for a few tiny spots of shelfwear in plain red printed wrappers. Author's celebrated FIRST book.
Published by Harper & Row, New York 1968
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- First Edition
Seller: San Francisco Book Company, Paris, FranceSan Francisco Book Company
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Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: good. purple cloth, papered boards, silver lettering, dust jacket unclipped, 385 pp, first edition owner's name (Jill Evans) on front endpaper, light wear and small tears to edges of dust jacket Standard shipping (no tracking) / Priority (with tracking) / Custom quote for large…or heavy orders. Cloth/dust jacket and mylar wrapped Octavo.
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- First Edition
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Seller: DIAMOND HOLLOW BOOKS / MILES BELLAMY, ANDES, NY, U.S.A.DIAMOND HOLLOW BOOKS / MILES BELLAMY
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Hardcover. Condition: VG. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Near Fine purple quarter cloth over orange boards, 385 pages. Dust jacket shows rubbing to base & few small nicks & closed tears to crown of spine & front panel, as well as 1/8 inch closed tear to rear; otherwise healthy. This copy is SIGNED "Sincerely Fred Exley" on ti…tle page. It bears previous owner's name ("Gartland") on front free endpaper. While First Edition is not stated, the code 1-S on copyright page and, on the flap 0968 suggest September 1968, same as True First pub. date. We have not determined why a 2nd printing would have been made so close to the first one. Rear flap bears small price sticker from Robinson's Book Store, Watertown, New York, which was Exley's home town.
Published by Harper & Row, New York 1968
- Hardcover
- First Edition
Seller: Fireproof Books, MINNETONKA, MN, U.S.A.Fireproof Books
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Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. First Edition. Exley's first book, a 60's cult classic that continues to gain in literary stature. The not-so-fictional hero of this memoir obsesses over the New York football Giants between bouts of drinking and mental illness. Filmed in 1972. Bookp…late on front endpaper, else fine in near fine dustjacket with short, creased tear at top edge of rear panel, other minor nicks and tears at edges, still a very sharp copy.
Published by Harper & Row, New York 1968
- Hardcover
- First Edition
Seller: Ground Zero Books, Ltd., Silver Spring, MD, U.S.A.Ground Zero Books, Ltd.
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Hardcover. Condition: Very good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very good. Presumed First Edition, First printing. [12], 385, [3] pages. A Note to the Reader. DJ has slight wear and soiling. His first book, and the subject of a 1972 film. Frederick Earl "Fred" Exley (March 28, 1929 - June 17, 1992) was an American writer. His fictional…memoir A Fan's Notes received critical acclaim and awards. He followed it up with two more fictional memoirs. In 1952, Exley dropped out of USC and moved to New York City to find employment, only to return a year later to complete a BA in English. He returned to New York to work in public relations for New York Central Railroad. After a year there he relocated to their Chicago office, then began working for Rock Island Railroad in the same capacity. Exley soon took over as managing editor of the railroad's employee magazine, The Rocket, where his first published writing appeared. Exley was institutionalized three times in the 1950s after entering an itinerant period marked by acute alcoholism, obsession with New York Giants football, mental instability and schizophrenia that was to provide much of the autobiographical material for his first book, A Fan's Notes. His alcoholism growing worse, Exley began a decade of briefly-held jobs and institutionalization, while continuing to work on A Fan's Notes. In 1964, Exley sent the manuscript for A Fan's Notes to Joe Fox at Random House, who suggested an agent, Lynn Nesbit who sold it to Harper & Row. A Fan's Notes prompted widespread critical acclaim. The novel was a finalist for the National Book Award, and received the William Faulkner Award for best first novel, and the National Institute of Arts and Letters Rosenthal Award. Exley's cult classic, a fictional memoir based on the author's real struggle, complicated by alcohol abuse and mental illness, to avoid being a lifelong "loser." Son of a fabled high school athlete in Watertown, NY, but with no interest in athletics in a sports-rabid town, Exley's only joy was in watching, through an alcoholic haze, the NY Giants on television on Sunday afternoons at a local bar. A Giants' victory would seem to justify, for a few hours, his misshapen life. In between football games, drinking bouts, shock treatments and insulin therapy, Exley would venture out into the world to play at being a normal, successful, young man on-the-go only to find each attempt driving him toward insanity again bringing him to the conclusion he is not a hero but merely a fan. Derived from a Kirkus review: A first novel of unquestionable dynamism, Frederick Exley's is "autobiographical," a form which permits the writer to stay closer to life while surfacing more freely above conventional disciplines. Exley's is a documentary of experience exposed, sometimes assessed, and often numbingly intensified. In Glacial Falls, upstate New York where he is teaching, life begins again for Exley as it does every Sunday in a bar, with the amber allure of the bottle just before the Giants' game flashes on the screen. His father had been a great football player and had heard the roar of the crowd; Exley's fate is to only be a fan, an intransigent truth he reaches only many drinks, many years later. This then follows him through long, lost intervals in and out of a New York hospital for the insane; a summer in Chicago and his first, incomplete "season of love"; his assaults against the real world of making a living and failing to accept its responsibilities; his marriage to uncomplaining if un-understanding Patience, protected by her money; and through a whole series of wild flights with some randy, rummy characters-Bumpy and The Counselor and Mr. Blue. Finally, all these crippling dreams and grandiose fantasies end with the acceptance of "life's hard fact of famelessness." But then as Lawrence said, "the quick of all time is the instant." Exley's book has many instants, many moments. It is unmistakably vital and reads obsessively, obliteratingly.
More imagesPublished by Harper & Row, New York 1968
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- First Edition
Seller: Laureate Fine Books, Poultney, VT, U.S.A.Laureate Fine Books
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Condition: Near Fine. Near Fine. First Edition, First Printing. A Near Fine Book in a Near Fine Pictorial Dust Jacket, Unclipped ($6.95). Book is moderately shelf worn and sunned to extremities. Front board has a pronounced bump to bottom corner. Deckled text fore edge is moderately toned, black top stain remains vibrant. Text i…s unmarked. Binding is tight but inclined slightly toward rear board. James Spanfeller designed dust jacket is moderately shelf worn with some light bumping and rubbing to extremities, and toning, especially to rear panel. Hardcover. Octavo. [xii], 385pp. Publisher's Red Boards Backed with Purple Cloth, Black and Silver Detailing.
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- Hardcover
- First Edition
Seller: Clio and Erato Books, Tarrytown, NY, U.S.A.Clio and Erato Books
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Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. Although Exley states this book is a fictional memoir, it bears close resemblance to the "long malaise" that he calls his life. The son of a local high school football star, Exley never won the notice he craved and turned to drink and obsessively following the… football Giants. Insulin therapy and shock treatments at mental institutions mark his devolution. The failure to achieve the American dream calls the novel into comparison to The Great Gatsby. Nominated for the National Book Award and made into a motion picture in 1972, starring Jerry Ohrbach.
Published by Harper & Row 1968
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- First Edition
Seller: Jeff Bergman Books ABAA, ILAB, Flemington, NJ, U.S.A.Jeff Bergman Books ABAA, ILAB
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Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. Fine Copy In Like Jacket.$6.95 On Flap. Stated First Edition. Great First Novel on New York Giants As A Fan looks back. Without Wear Beautiful Copy.
Published by Harper & Row, New York 1968
- Hardcover
- First Edition
Seller: Ed Smith Books, Bainbridge Island, WA, U.S.A.Ed Smith Books
Contact seller1-star sellerHardcover. dj. First edition. Subtitled "A Fictional Memoir" and categorized as fiction, the book is semi-autobiographical. In a brief "Note to the Reader" in the opening pages, Exley writes: "Though the events in this book bear similarity to those of that long malaise, my life.I have drawn freely from the imagination and adhere…d only loosely to the pattern of my past life. To this extent, and for this reason, I ask to be judged a writer of fantasy." A sardonic account of mental illness, alcoholism, insulin shock therapy and electroconvulsive therapy, and the black hole of sports fandom. A fine copy in a fine dust jacket.
Published by Harper & Row, New York 1968
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- First Edition
Seller: H. W. Gumaer, Bookseller, Canandaigua, NY, U.S.A.H. W. Gumaer, Bookseller
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Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. First Edition, First Printing. Exley's cult classic, a fictional memoir based on the author's real struggle, complicated by alcohol abuse and mental illness, to avoid being a lifelong "loser." Son of a fabled high school athlete in Watertown, NY, but with no inte…rest in athletics in a sports-rabid town, Exley's only joy was in watching, through an alcoholic haze, the NY Giants on televison on Sunday afternoons at a local bar. A Giants' victory would seem to justify, for a few hours, his misshapen life. In between football games, drinking bouts, shock treatments and insulin therapy, Exley would venture out into the world to play at being a normal, successful, young man on-the-go only to find each attempt driving him toward insanity again bringing him to the conclusion he is not a hero but merely a fan. Text's fore edge is lighlty foxed, o/w text and boards are clean and unmarked, tight and square; the dustjacket shows single, quarter-inch closed tears on the bottom edge of both front and back panels, o/w only very minimal surface and edgewear; not price-clipped. A collectable copy of a hard-to-find classic.
