A Quiet Voyage Home (Only Signed Copy)

Richard Jessup

Published by Little, Brown and Company, Boston, 1970

About this Item

Stated First Edition. Once listed it will be the Only signed copy of this book for sale on the Internet. The signed inscription is on the title page. It reads 'For Ted + Alice, Something for the Mama's + Papa's about their children, Best Wishes, Richard Jessup, Westport 1970 pre-publication.' The red covers are in very nice condition, very clean, very little wear, a few light scratches, a little crinkling at the spine ends. That's it. The inside covers and end papers are a darker red, no soiling, no wear. The book is solidly bound, both pages and covers. The pages, on the whole are exceptionally clean. However there is a small tan stain on the middle page edge and a teeny bit of it just peeks over the edges of the last 40 pages. I didn't see any other soiling and the pages are nicely bright. I'm not seeing any creasing. No markings or attachments. And with the exception of the author's signed inscription, no one has written their name or anything else anywhere. You can see the dust jacket for yourself in the photos. There's some scratching, some handling soiling, some scuffing. The flaps have a tiny bit of dust staining at their top edges. There's a little pinkish spot on the rear flap. The lettering on the flaps is blue. The jacket is NOT price-clipped, not clipped at all. It will be fitted with a protective cover after the photos are scanned. The book was a Book-of-the-Month Club Selection. It is not a BOMC publication. From a New York Times review: 'I would like to put a copy of Richard Jessup's novel in the hands of every university president and see that he passes a quiz on it with at least a B?. Mr. Jessup combines in this grimly convincing book a lucidly stated anatomy of existential anarchy-- a current undergraduate fad-- with an unerring sense of the dramatic. The result is a painless parable that spells out its message in letters of fire. The fire or fires occur aboard the S.S. New York, a trans Atlantic greyhound returning from Le Havre with 1,600 active members of the Age of Aquarius in the tourist class. The 1,600 students are catalyzed from hedonists into mutineers by one strong-willed provocateur who manipulates his shipmates' impulses with the amoral virtuosity of a Machia velli. For Maynard somebody, known as "Indian," the means is the end: namely the confrontation of authority with "the compulsions of youth. Indian understands how to masquerade pretexts in the place of causes. He knows what catchwords will best turn on the adrenalin of his peers. He comprehends the value of the big lie, disseminated by mimeograph, ship's radio and the shouted word. And he marshals his tactics against captain and crew as effectively as another set of rebels assaulted the Weimar Republic. The S.S. New York is a ship and not a nation, but the microcosmic implications of its voyage are unmistakable.'. Seller Inventory # 003777

Bibliographic Details

Title: A Quiet Voyage Home (Only Signed Copy)

Publisher: Little, Brown and Company, Boston

Publication Date: 1970

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good Minus

Signed: Inscribed by Author(s)

Edition: 1st Edition