Candy

Southern, Terry and Mason Hoffernberg [Maxwell Kenton]

Published by New York, New York G. P. Putnam's Sons 1964, 1964

About this Item

1st American Edition, first impression. 224pp. Octavo. Purple cloth binding with gilt stamped lettering on spine. Long outer edges of boards covered with 2 inches of black paper. Slight fading to ends of spine and top and bottom edges. Slight bump to board at top of spine. Red endpapers. Clean, tight text block through out. Long outer edge roughly trimmed. Top outer edge stained red with small lighter spot. In dust jacket, not price clipped. Jacket displays a portrait of a woman. Slight wear and mild chipping to edges with jacket with perhaps some very slight soiling- else a great copy! very good A true first edition, first impression with all the issue points: $5.00, 0464 and James Jones blurb on back cover. Candy was originally released in 1958 under the name Maxwell Kenton (a pseudonym for Terry Southern) in collaboratin with Mason Hoffenberg. It was first published by Olympia Press and later published in North America by Putnam under the authors' own names. The story owes elements of its plotline to Voltaire's Candide. In 2006, Playboy Magazine listed Candy among the "25 Sexiest Novels Ever Written", and described the story as a "young heroine's picaresque travels, a kind of sexual pinball machine that lights up academia, gardeners, the medical profession, mystics and bohemians.". Seller Inventory # 134413

Bibliographic Details

Title: Candy

Publisher: New York, New York G. P. Putnam's Sons 1964

Publication Date: 1964

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: very good

Dust Jacket Condition: Dust Jacket Included

Edition: 1st Edition