January 2021 Catalogue

64 Required Reading January 2021 First Edition Of Revolutionary Road , Inscribed In The Year Of Publication By Richard Yates 62. YATES, Richard. Revolutionary Road. Boston and Toronto, 1961. Octavo, original half red cloth, dust jacket. $7800. Click for more info First edition of Yates’ explosive debut novel, named “the Great Gatsby of our time” by Vonnegut, inscribed in the year of publication: “For N— G— with best wishes Richard Yates Bread Loaf—8/24/61.” Revolutionary Road , Richard Yates’ groundbreaking first novel, “creates an indelible portrait of lost promises and mortgaged hopes” in suburban America, a work richly praised for achieving “an intensity that excites the reader’s compassion as well as his interest.” A National Book Award finalist in 1962,the novel was hailed by Tennessee Williams as “intensely, and brilliantly alive. Ifmore is needed tomake amasterpiece inmodernAmerican fiction, I am sure I don’t know what it is.” Yates, who was associated with the Bread Loaf Writers Conference in Vermont in the early 1960s, inscribed this copy in the year of publication to a Minnesota English teacher attending the conference. Book fine; trace of dampstaining, a couple scratches to rear panel, mild toning to spine of bright near-fine dust jacket.