Separate Flights [Second Issue Jacket]

Dubus, Andre

Published by David R. Godine, Boston, 1975

About this Item

The scarce second issue of Dubus's second book and first collection of short stories. Dubus, who died in 1999, is widely considered (to quote Ann Beattie in her introduction to a recent reissue of Dubus's work) "one of the best American short-story writers ever." Dubus's stories, Beattie writes, "question the status-quo. Actually, they catch it and break its neck, even those times they ostensibly put it back together. Everything looks the same, but if you were to lift it, you?d feel the inherent flaw." Nina MacLaughlin, writing in the Paris Review, writes that the reissue of Dubus's stories, "reaffirm Dubus?s status as a master, as an unparalleled excavator of the heart and its pains, its longings, its errors, its thumping against the constant threat of grief, despair, and loneliness." This copy has the seldom seen cream jacket with calligraphy by Jacqueline Sakwa. The cream jacket, with a higher price than the first issue, appears to have been made in small numbers. The second issue jacket has blurbs from published reviews on the back panel, unlike the first issue, which has blurbs from other authors. The flaps of the second-issue jacket are blank. First edition (first printing), in a second issue jacket, with a $13.95 price sticker on the back cover (over a printed price of $10.00?). A near fine copy with a few spots on the red cloth in a near fine jacket. Signed by Dubus on the title page.

Seller Inventory # 363866

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Separate Flights [Second Issue Jacket]
• Publisher: David R. Godine, Boston
• Publication Date: 1975
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: First Edition.
• Condition: Near fine
• Dust Jacket Condition: Near fine
• Signed: Signed by Author(s)
• Seller catalogs:
  • Short Story
  • FICTION